Farinaceous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FARINACEOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• mealy; consisting of cereals
• consisting of or containing starch
• Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet.
• Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds.
• Like meal; mealy; pertainiing to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance.
• resembling starch
• composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having a mealy texture or surface

How to use FARINACEOUS in a sentence

• As a food, it is the least oily and most farinaceous of all the nuts, and, therefore, the easiest of digestion.
• From the quantity of farinaceous and saccharine matter contained in the pea, it is highly nutritious as an article of food.
• There it forms the principal farinaceous diet of the inhabitants.
• The biscuit powder is used in the same manner as the farinaceous food, and both prepared much after the fashion of making starch.
• In Asia, coffee is drunk in a thick farinaceous mixture.
• Farinaceous foods do not answer, and usually cause trouble sooner or later.
• The gastric juice has probably no action on farinaceous substances.
• It has spread nearly all over Africa, but some central portions yet depend entirely for farinaceous food upon the seed of the sorghum and dourra.
• Farina is the principal farinaceous production of Brazil.
• Our abundant English grasses furnish nutritious herbage and farinaceous seeds, whilst their stems and leaves prove useful for textile purposes.
• In some parts of Europe, India, and other Eastern countries, it is still largely consumed as the ordinary farinaceous food of the peasantry and soldiers.
• Cornstarch consists of the farinaceous portions of the grain.
• The difference, in the success of Christian missions, between such people and those whose chief sustenance is farinaceous food, is very striking and worthy of especial notice.
• Preparations from sago, tapioca, and other farinaceous substances are sometimes serviceable for this purpose.
• It should be combined with farinaceous and vegetable food, in order to correct the heating effects of a concentrated animal diet.
• THE GRAIN CROPS, EDIBLE ROOTS, AND FARINACEOUS PLANTS FORMING THE BREAD STUFFS OF COMMERCE.
• There is, however, but one which is considered farinaceous and edible.
• As a matter of curious information, I have also briefly alluded to many other plants and roots, furnishing farinaceous substance and support in different countries.
• The sweetness is not disagreeable to the palate, though considerable, and they contain a large portion of farinaceous matter, being as mealy as the best of our own potatoes.
• It is entirely farinaceous, and, when properly ground and prepared, makes good bread.
• The calves are deprived of part of their natural food, the deficiency being perhaps made up by unnatural farinaceous milk substitutes.
• Only by the use of vegetable food, particularly farinaceous, can a permanent cure be assured.
• It is better, scientifically, to have the farinaceous food at about 130 deg.