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cornflour

noun
/ˈkɔːn.flaʊə/UK

Etymology

From corn + flour. Piecewise doublet of cornflower.

Definitions

  1. A very fine starch powder derived from corn (maize) used in cooking as a thickener, to…

    A very fine starch powder derived from corn (maize) used in cooking as a thickener, to keep things from sticking, or as an anti-caking agent.

  2. A flour for baking and cooking that is ground from corn (maize).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cornflour. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at cornflour. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at cornflour

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA