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Farinaceous

adjective
1.
Resembling starch.  Synonyms: amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, starchlike.
2.
Composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency.  Synonyms: coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy.  "The photographs were grainy and indistinct" , "It left a mealy residue"





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... they had no appetite to partake of it, except in quantities insufficient to supply the waste of the tissues, were, of course, in the condition of men slowly starving, notwithstanding that the only farinaceous form of food which the Confederate States produced in sufficient abundance for the maintenance of armies was not withheld from them. In such cases, an urgent feeling of hunger was not a prominent symptom; and even when it existed at first, it soon ...
— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy
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Words linked to "Farinaceous" :   coarse, starchy, harsh


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