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flour
1. A white or brown powder made by crushing grains and used for making bread, cakes, pasta, sauce thickener, etc.
2. A fine, powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a grain; especially, wheat, used primarily in baking.
3. Etymology: from flur, "flower"; the meaning "finer portion of ground grain" is from the mid-13th century, from the notion of flour as the "finest part" of meal (French fleur de farine), as distinguished from the coarser parts known as meal.
3. Etymology: from flur, "flower"; the meaning "finer portion of ground grain" is from the mid-13th century, from the notion of flour as the "finest part" of meal (French fleur de farine), as distinguished from the coarser parts known as meal.
It was spelled flower until flour became the accepted form in about 1830 in order to end the confusion with the words.
In a 1691 book by Thomas Tryon, titled Wisdom's Dictates, there is a reference to "Milk, Water, and Flower"; while in John Milton's Paradise Lost in 1667, he wrote "O flours That never will in other climate grow."
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flori-, flor-, flora-, -florous
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flour, flower
flour (FLOUR) (noun)
Ground wheat or other cereal seeds: Whole-wheat flour is recommended as more wholesome for one's health.
flower (FLOU ur) (noun)
A blossom: A flower from a rosebush can impress people in many ways.
Flowers have more scents than people.
Can you believe that there is such a thing as flower flour or what is also known as "ground-grain blossoms"?
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group F; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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(Greek: flour)
(Latin: glue, sticky substance which remains in flour when the starch is taken out)
(Latin: fertilizing male elements of flowers; fine flour; milldust; spores; powder)