"cornflour" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkɔːn.flaʊə/ [UK] Forms: cornflours [plural]
Etymology: * corn + flour Etymology templates: {{compound|en|corn|flour}} corn + flour Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} cornflour (usually uncountable, plural cornflours)
  1. (British) A very fine starch powder derived from maize (US corn) used in cooking as a thickener, to keep things from sticking, or as an anti-caking agent. Tags: British, uncountable, usually Synonyms: cornstarch
    Sense id: en-cornflour-en-noun-en:cornstarch Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 91 9 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 89 11
  2. A flour for baking and cooking that is ground from maize (US corn). Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Foods Categories (lifeform): Maize (food) Translations (a flour for baking and cooking that is ground from maize (US corn)): kukoricaliszt (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-cornflour-en-noun-en:maize_flour Disambiguation of Foods: 40 60 Disambiguation of Maize (food): 41 59 Disambiguation of 'a flour for baking and cooking that is ground from maize (US corn)': 16 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations: artirin (Basque), ахьар (aḥʳar) (Chechen), 粟粉 (suk¹ fan²) (Chinese Cantonese), 玉米澱粉 (Chinese Mandarin), 玉米淀粉 (yùmǐ diànfěn) (Chinese Mandarin), maissitärkkelys (Finnish), maicena [feminine] (Galician), άνθος αραβοσίτου (ánthos aravosítou) [neuter] (Greek), קוֹרְנְפְלוֹר (kórnflor) [masculine] (Hebrew), tepung jagung (Malay), parāoa kānga (Maori), maicena [feminine] (Spanish), harina de maíz [feminine] (Spanish), fécula [feminine] (Spanish), almidón [feminine] (Spanish), majsstärkelse [common-gender] (Swedish), mısır unu (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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