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farelo — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bran noun The tough outer layer of a cereal grain (wheat, rye, oats, etc.), sifted out from the flour and often eaten separately for its fibre.

Senses

farelo is used for these senses in English:

  • bran The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
  • breadcrumb (chiefly, in the plural) A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread.
  • semolina Coarse grains produced at an intermediate stage of wheat flour milling.

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