farinaceous
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Farinaceous food in some form, usually as a gruel.
From The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses by Holt, L. Emmett
Farinaceous: mealy: applied to powdery looking wings and surfaces.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
Farinaceous articles of food are generally not well borne in this fever, because the diminution in the secretion of the salivary glands which almost always exists prevents their proper digestion.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Flivver, they suggested, and Frog-face and Flathead and Farinaceous and Freezone and Flapdoodle and Foghorn.
From Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair
Farinaceous, mealy, consisting of meal or flour; from farina, flour.
