farina

Meaning

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. Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk, more commonly known by the trademark name Cream of Wheat.

Synonyms

flour

meal

pollen

powder

starch

cereal

potato starch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fəˈɹiːnə/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin farīna (“flour, meal”), from far (“kind of grain”).