flour

Etymology
Spelled (until about 1830) and meaning in the sense of flour being the "finest portion of ground grain" (compare 🇨🇬, ). . Partially displaced native.

The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.

Pronunciation

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Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3) Powder of other material.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2) Powder of other material.
 * 1) Powder of other material.

Verb

 * 1)  To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
 * 2)  To reduce to flour.
 * 3)  To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.

Adjective

 * , best of a collective

Noun

 * 1)  flower
 * 2)  the best of a collective

Etymology 1
, from, accusative of. More at.

Noun

 * 1) A flower often representing impermanence or beauty
 * 2) A depiction or likeness of a flower.
 * 3) Success or achievement in a contest; victoriousness.
 * 4) A virtue or benefit; something desirable.
 * 5) That which is unparalleled; the top or most superior.
 * 6) Flour i.e. the best part of a grain
 * 7) A powder; especially one which is white like flour.
 * 8) An exemplar or example of a trait or behaviour.
 * 9) A woman's menstruation/period.
 * 10)  Virginhood; sexual abstinence.
 * 1)  Virginhood; sexual abstinence.

Etymology 2
From.

Etymology
From, from , from , accusative of. More at 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) a flower
 * 2) a bouquet bunch of flowers
 * 3)  Wheat

Verb

 * 1) to embroider