Farina
[fuh-ree-nuh] /fəˈri nə/
noun
1.
flour or meal made from cereal grains and cooked as cereal, used in puddings, soups, etc.
2.
Chiefly British. starch, especially potato starch.
/fəˈriːnə/
noun
1.
flour or meal made from any kind of cereal grain
2.
(mainly Brit) starch, esp prepared from potato flour
n.
1707, from Latin farina “ground wheat, flour, meal,” from far (genitive farris) “grits, spelt, a kind of grain” (see barley).
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