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farinaceous

adjective as in granular

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The colonel’s ponderous, farinaceous cheeks were tinted suddenly with glowing patches of enthusiasm.

For that matter, I’m farinaceous at heart, and so I’m wild about bread and savory pastries, too, and I love pasta.

More accurately, we did a U-turn in our dietary advice from "farinaceous and vegetable foods are fattening, and saccharine matters are especially so" to "base your meals on starchy foods".

Seeds farinaceous, but imbued with a bitter and narcotic principle.

Bad Teeth.—The existence of canker in dogs' teeth is generally another consequence of bad rearing and farinaceous feeding.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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