flour

noun
/ˈflaʊ.ə/

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.

Other meanings

Powder of other material.
The food made by grinding and 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.

A kind of

food product

Kinds of flour

plain flour
wheat flour
soy flour
rye flour

Related words

all-purpose flour
beanflour
beflour
bread flour
cold flour
cornflour
cricket flour
flour beetle
flour corn
flour gold
flourless
flourlike

Example sentences

“I put too much flour in the cookie dough.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0
“Throw all your flour out.”
Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “flour” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.