Definition of "farina" in English

noun

1. A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.

2. A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.

3. (botany) A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting of flavonoids in Primula and other species.

4. Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.