farina

Meanings

1. A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
2. A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.
3. A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting of flavonoids in Primula and other species.
4. Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.

1. A surname from Italian.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin farīna (“flour, meal”), from far (“kind of grain”).