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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

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Breadroot

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

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

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

filbert

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

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

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

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

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