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plain flour

plain flour noun: a wheat flour with a medium gluten content, suitable for general use.

plain flour: a wheat flour with a medium gluten content, suitable for general use
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Noun

plain flour (usually uncountable, plural plain flours)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, usually) A wheat flour with a medium gluten content, suitable for general use.
  2. (usually, US standards of identity) exact synonym of flour.

Synonyms of plain flour

Forms of plain flour

pluralplain flours

Origin of plain flour

plain (“regular”) + flour. The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.

Questions about plain flour

What does plain flour mean?
Plain flour means a wheat flour with a medium gluten content, suitable for general use.
What part of speech is plain flour?
Plain flour is a noun.
What is the plural of plain flour?
The plural of plain flour is plain flours.

Words near plain flour in the dictionary

  1. plain Dunstable
  2. Plain Dutch
  3. plain English
  4. plain film
  5. plain films
  6. plain flour
  7. plain flours
  8. plain Jane
  9. plain Janes
  10. plain leaf warbler
  11. plain leaf warblers

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