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noun
- flour or meal made from cereal grains and cooked as cereal, used in puddings, soups, etc.
- Chiefly British. starch, especially potato starch.
noun
- flour or meal made from any kind of cereal grain
- mainly British starch, esp prepared from potato flour
1707, from Latin farina “ground wheat, flour, meal,” from far (genitive farris) “grits, spelt, a kind of grain” (see barley).