farinacious

Adjective

farinaceous (comparative more farinaceous, superlative most farinaceous)

1. Made from, or rich in, starch or flour.
   • Mr. Pumblechook's premises in the High-street of the market town, were of a peppercorny and farinaceous character, as the premises of a corn-chandler and seedsman should be.1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
2. Having a floury texture or flavor; grainy; bready; breadlike.
   • In the Great Pavilion, the nurserymen and women have been employing their dark arts, too; coaxing agapanthus into bloom two months early, cosseting iris with wads of strategically placed cotton wool or touching up the farinaceous, fan-shaped fronds of a Bismarck palm with face powder.2007 May 22, Victoria Summerley, “It does us good to get our hands dirty”, in The Independent Online