Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FAR-I-NA'CEOUS, a. [from L. farina, meal.]

1. Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet, which consists of the meal or flour of the various species of corn or grain.
2. Containing meal; as, farinaceous seeds.
3. Like meal; mealy; pertaining to meal; as, a farinaceous taste or smell.