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- Farinaceous - a. - Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet.
- Farinaceous - a. - Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds.
- Farinaceous - a. - Like meal; mealy; pertainiing to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance.
- Corn - n. - The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.
- Yam - n. - A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is D. sativa, but several others are cultivated.
- Souffle - n. - A side dish served hot from the oven at dinner, made of eggs, milk, and flour or other farinaceous substance, beaten till very light, and flavored with fruits, liquors, or essence.
- Farinaceous - a. - Like meal; mealy; pertainiing to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance.
- Water gruel - - A liquid food composed of water and a small portion of meal, or other farinaceous substance, boiled and seasoned.
- Breadroot - n. - The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.
- Bitterroot - n. - A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spaet'lum.
- Yeast - n. - The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment.
- Potato - n. - A plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico.
- Bull brier - - A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier.