farinaceous

farinaceous
    adj 1: resembling starch [syn: {starchlike}, {amylaceous},
           {amyloid}, {amyloidal}, {farinaceous}]
    2: composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in
       texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs
       were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue" [syn:
       {farinaceous}, {coarse-grained}, {grainy}, {granular},
       {granulose}, {gritty}, {mealy}]
    

Farinaceous \Far`i*na"ceous\, a. [L. farinaceus.]
   1. Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous
      diet.
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   2. Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds.
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   3. Like meal; mealy; pertaining to meal; as, a farinaceous
      taste, smell, or appearance.
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61 Moby Thesaurus words for "farinaceous":
      botanic, branny, bulbous, cereal, chalklike, chalky, comminute,
      comminuted, crushed, detrital, detrited, disintegrated, dusty,
      efflorescent, fine, flaky, floury, fruitlike, fruity, furfuraceous,
      gone to dust, grated, ground, herbaceous, herbal, herbose, herbous,
      herby, impalpable, leguminose, leguminous, levigated, mealy,
      milled, pestled, plantlike, powdered, powdery, pulverant,
      pulverized, pulverulent, radicated, radiciform, radicular,
      reduced to powder, rhizoid, rootlike, scaly, scobicular, scobiform,
      scurfy, sharded, shredded, triturated, tuberous, vegetable,
      vegetal, vegetarian, vegetational, vegetative, weedy