different between flour vs pseudocereal

English

Alternative forms

• flower (obsolete)

Etymology

Spelled (until about 1830) and meaning flower in the sense of flour being the "finest portion of ground grain" (compare French fleur de farine, fine fleur). Doublet of flower. Partially displaced native meal.

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fla??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fla??/
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /?fl?r/
• Rhymes: -a??(r)
• Homophone: flower (for people who pronounce flour as two syllables or flower as one)

Noun

flour (usually uncountable, plural flours)

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. (US standards of identity) 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.

   wood flour, produced by sanding wood

   mustard flour

4. Obsolete form of flower.

   • that nobody is wished to see my dead body. & that no murnurs walk behind me at my funeral. & that no flours be planted on my grave.

Synonyms

• (U.S. standard of identity): smeddum, plain flour, wheat flour, white flour

Coordinate terms

• (ground material): meal

Derived terms

• all-purpose flour
• bread flour
• self-raising flour, self-rising flour
• strong flour

Descendants

• ? Drehu: falawa
• ? Maori: par?oa
• ? West Uvean: falawa

Translations

See also

• bran
• farina
• meal
• smeddum

Verb

flour (third-person singular simple present flours, present participle flouring, simple past and past participle floured)

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

Translations

Anagrams

• fluor, fluor-, four L, furol, orful, rufol

Cornish

Alternative forms

• flowr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [flu??]

Adjective

flour

1. flower, choice (best of a collective)

Noun

flour m (plural flourys)

1. (botany) flower
2. flower (the best of a collective)

Synonyms

• blejen, bleujen, blejan
• flowren

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin fl?rem, accusative of fl?s. More at flower.

Alternative forms

• fflour, fflowr, fleur, flor, floure, flower, flowr, flowre, flowyr, flur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flu?r/

Noun

flour (plural floures)

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. (rare) Virginhood; sexual abstinence.

Related terms

• flourdelis
• flouren
• flouryng
• floury
• lilie flour

Descendants

• English: flower, flour
• Scots: flouer, flour, floor

References

• “fl?ur, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-09-25.
• “fl?ur, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-09-25.

Etymology 2

From Old English fl?r.

Noun

flour

1. Alternative form of flor

Occitan

Alternative forms

• flor, hlor

Etymology

From Old Occitan flor, from Latin fl?s, fl?rem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (“flower, blossom”).

Noun

flour f (plural flours)

1. (Mistralian) flower

Old French

Noun

flour f (oblique plural flours, nominative singular flour, nominative plural flours)

1. Alternative form of flor

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) flur
• (Sursilvan) flura

Etymology

From Latin fl?s, fl?rem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (“flower, blossom”).

Noun

flour f (plural flours)

1. (Surmiran) flower

Scots

Alternative forms

• flouer

Etymology

From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin fl?rem, accusative of fl?s. More at English flower.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flu?r/

Noun

flour (plural flours)

1. a flower
2. a bouquet (bunch of flowers)
3. (uncountable) Wheat flour

Verb

flour (third-person singular present flours, present participle flourin, past flourt, past participle flourt)

1. to embroider

English

Alternative forms

• pseudo-cereal

Etymology

pseudo- +? cereal

Noun

pseudocereal (plural pseudocereals)

1. Any plant that, although not belonging to the grass family, produces seeds that are used to make flour.

   Hyponyms: buckwheat, quinoa, amaranth

   • 2006, Franc Bavec, Martina Bavec, Organic Production and Use of Alternative Crops, CRC Press (?ISBN), page 65

Translations

Further reading

• pseudocereal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Noun

pseudocereal m (plural pseudocereais)

1. pseudocereal (plant whose seeds are used to make flour, but which does not belong to the grass family)