"plain flour" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: plain flours [plural]
Etymology: plain (“regular”) + flour. The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105. Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} plain flour (usually uncountable, plural plain flours)
  1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, cooking) A wheat flour with a medium gluten content, suitable for general use. Equivalent to American English "all-purpose flour". Tags: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Cooking Translations (flour with medium gluten content, suitable for general use): puolikarkea vehnäjauho (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-plain_flour-en-noun-ZOHGJMNs Categories (other): British English, Commonwealth English, Irish English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 80 20 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 87 13 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 82 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 75 25 Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle Disambiguation of 'flour with medium gluten content, suitable for general use': 79 21
  2. (US standards of identity) exact synonym of flour Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Standards of identity
    Sense id: en-plain_flour-en-noun-kR3ofWGD Categories (other): American English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Coordinate_terms: strong flour

Inflected forms

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