wheat flour

English

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Etymology

From Middle English weth-floure, equivalent to wheat +‎ flour.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwiːt ˌflaʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈʍiːt ˌflaʊə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

wheat flour (countable and uncountable, plural wheat flours)

  1. Flour made from wheat.
    Hypernyms: flour, meal
    Coordinate terms: cornflour, cornmeal, cornstarch, oatmeal, maizemeal, rice flour, ricemeal, barleymeal
    Near-synonyms: wheatmeal (broadly synonymous), wheat starch
  2. (US standards of identity) exact synonym of flour

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