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  • 21meal worm — meal worm, or meal|worm «MEEL WURM», noun. a beetle larva that feeds on flour and meal. Meal worms are raised as food for cage birds …

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  • 22flour — flourless, adj. /floweur, flow euhr/, n. 1. the finely ground meal of grain, esp. the finer meal separated by bolting. 2. the finely ground and bolted meal of wheat, as that used in baking. 3. a finely ground, powdery foodstuff, as of dehydrated… …

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  • 23meal — [OE] Meal ‘repast’ and meal ‘flour’ are two distinct words. The former originally meant ‘measure’: it goes back via prehistoric Germanic *mǣlaz (source of German mal ‘time, occasion’ and mahl ‘meal’, Dutch maal ‘time, meal’, and Swedish mål… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 24meal — [OE] Meal ‘repast’ and meal ‘flour’ are two distinct words. The former originally meant ‘measure’: it goes back via prehistoric Germanic *mǣlaz (source of German mal ‘time, occasion’ and mahl ‘meal’, Dutch maal ‘time, meal’, and Swedish mål… …

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  • 25Meal — For the coarsely ground flour, see flour. Part of a series on Meals …

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  • 26flour — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. meal, pulp, powder, grit, bran, farina, breadstuff, gluten, starch, bleached flour, unbleached flour, wheat germ, semolina, patent flour, middlings, shorts, white flour, wheat flour, whole wheat flour, rye flour, graham flour …

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  • 27flour — {{11}}flour (n.) early 13c., flur flower (see FLOWER (Cf. flower)); meaning finer portion of ground grain is mid 13c., from the notion of flour as the finest part of meal (Cf. Fr. fleur de farine), as distinguished from the coarser parts (meal).… …

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  • 28flour — /ˈflaʊə / (say flowuh) noun 1. the finely ground meal of wheat or other grain, especially the finer meal separated by bolting. 2. any fine, soft powder: flour of emery. –verb (t) 3. to make (grain, etc.) into flour; grind and bolt. 4. to sprinkle …

  • 29meal — [[t]mi͟ːl[/t]] ♦♦♦ meals 1) N COUNT A meal is an occasion when people sit down and eat, usually at a regular time. She sat next to him throughout the meal... It s rare that I have an evening meal with my children. 2) N COUNT A meal is the food… …

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  • 30meal — /mi:l/ noun 1 (C) an occasion when you eat food, for example breakfast or lunch: Dinner is the main meal of the day for most people. | What time are you having your meal? | go (out) for a meal: After the movie we went for a meal in a Chinese… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English