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white flour

noun

Meaning

  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.
  4. A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
  5. A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
  6. A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
  7. (usually with in) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
  8. (hypocoristic) The vulva, especially the labia majora.
  9. The best examples or representatives of a group.
  10. Something that flows, such as a river.
  11. Refined flour made solely of the endosperm of the grain, i.e. without germ and bran, often chemically whitened.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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