flour

noun

Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.

(US standards of identity) The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.

Powder of other material.

Obsolete form of flower. [A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.]

verb

(transitive) To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.

(transitive) To reduce to flour.

(intransitive) To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.

Roots

flosflour- · Latin · flower

Synonyms for flour

farinan breadn groatsn brann gritsn

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