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farinaceous

adjective as in granular

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The colonel’s ponderous, farinaceous cheeks were tinted suddenly with glowing patches of enthusiasm.

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For that matter, I’m farinaceous at heart, and so I’m wild about bread and savory pastries, too, and I love pasta.

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More accurately, we did a U-turn in our dietary advice from "farinaceous and vegetable foods are fattening, and saccharine matters are especially so" to "base your meals on starchy foods".

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Seeds farinaceous, but imbued with a bitter and narcotic principle.

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Bad Teeth.—The existence of canker in dogs' teeth is generally another consequence of bad rearing and farinaceous feeding.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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