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The correct spelling is flours.
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noun
Say it like: Flo-wrs
The correct spelling is flours. 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. For example: "mustard flour"
Usage Examples
“mustard flour”
“We transplanted the flowers to a larger pot.”
“The dogwoods are in flower this week.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.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.
- 2.The food made by grinding and bolting 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.
- 3.Powder of other material.
- 4.A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
- 5.A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
verb
- 1.To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
- 2.To reduce to flour.
- 3.To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.
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