Farinaceous - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: farinaceousFarinaceous
Consisting or made of meal or flour as a farinaceous diet...
Bantingism
A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous saccharine or oily matter so called from William Banting of London...
Bitterroot
A plant Lewisia rediviva allied to the purslane but with fleshy farinaceous roots growing in the mountains of Idaho Montana etc It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river The Indians call both the plant and the river Spaeligtlum...
Breadroot
The root of a leguminous plant Psoralea esculenta found near the Rocky Mountains It is usually oval in form and abounds in farinaceous matter affording sweet and palatable food...
Bull brier
A species of Smilax Smilax Pseudo China growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer called also bamboo brier and China brier...
Dasheen
A tropical aroid of the genus Caladium syn Colocasia having an edible farinaceous root It is related to the taro and to the tanier but is much superior to it in quality and is as easily cooked as the potato It is a staple food plant of the tropics being prepared like potatoes and has been introduced into the Southern United States...
filbert
The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or Corylus maxima also called the hazel the hazelnut It is an oval nut containing a kernel that has a mild farinaceous oily taste agreeable to the palate...
Hazel
A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus as the Corylus avellana bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild farinaceous taste the filbert The American species are Corylus Americana which produces the common hazelnut and Corylus rostrata See Filbert...
Porridge
A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance or the meal of it in water or in milk making of broth or thin pudding as barley porridge milk porridge bean porridge etc...
Potato
A plant Solanum tuberosum of the Nightshade family and its esculent farinaceous tuber of which there are numerous varieties used for food It is native of South America but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico...
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