farinaceous
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Baked spaghetti and macaroni dishes are almost impossible to make, because farinaceous foods are either unobtainable or rationed to near zero.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Pumblechook’s premises in the High Street of the market town, were of a peppercorny and farinaceous character, as the premises of a cornchandler and seedsman should be.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
The colonel’s ponderous, farinaceous cheeks were tinted suddenly with glowing patches of enthusiasm.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Tapioca, tap-i-ō′ka, n. a farinaceous substance obtained from cassava or manioc by drying it while moist on hot plates, so that the starch grains swell or burst, and the whole agglomerates in small lumps.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Seeds farinaceous, but imbued with a bitter and narcotic principle.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
