farinaceous

Questions about farinaceous

What does farinaceous mean?

farinaceous means "resembling starch". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in farinaceous?

farinaceous has 5 syllables: fa-ri-na-ce-ous. The stress falls on "ce".

What is another word for farinaceous?

Close synonyms include starchlike, amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, coarse-grained. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is farinaceous a common word?

farinaceous is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.