(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:36:23

Fa*ri"na (?), n. [L., meal, flour, fr. far a sort of grain, spelt; akin to E. barley.]

1.

A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.

2. Bot.

Pollen.

[R.]

Craig.

 

© Webster 1913.

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