farinha

Noun

farina (countable and uncountable, plural farinas)

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. A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.
3. A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting of flavonoids in Primula and other species.
4. Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.

   Synonyms:

   cream of wheat

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