Definition of Farinha

1. a meal made from the root of the cassava [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Farinha

farfals
farfara
farfel
farfels
farfet
farfetch
farfetched
farfetchedness
farfetches
farina
farina avenae
farina tritici
farinaceous
farinas
faring
farinha (current term)
farinhas
farinose
fario
farkakteh
farked
farking
farkleberries
farkleberry
farklempt
farks
farl
farle
farles

Literary usage of Farinha

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The South America Pilot: From Cape St. Roque to Cape Virgins, Including by Great Britain Hydrographic Office, J. J. P. Hitchfield (1893)
"RiO Maria farinha, about 2 miles southward of Itamaraca island, trends to the south and south-west for a distance of 3 miles, carrying from 1^ to 4 fathoms ..."

2. In the Amazon Jungle: Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River by Algot Lange, Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1912)
"A typical, well provided table on the Amazon would afford dry farinha in the first place. This is the granulated root of the ..."

3. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1813)
"The farinha is prepared thus : the root after it is taken out of the ground ... Roda de farinha, or the flour-wheel ; the trough the Brazilians call ..."

4. Three Years in the Pacific: Including Notices of Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Peru by William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger (1834)
"Museum—Aqueduct—Banana tree—farinha—Policemen—Slave of a naturalist—Casa da Agua. THE Museum is open daily to the public, from twelve until two o'clock, ..."

5. Ants and Their Ways by William Farren White (1895)
"... of three orders—The worker-minors— Mounds and galleries—Cutting leaves—Robbing the farinha baskets—The function of the worker-majors—Worker-majors with ..."

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