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graham flour

graham flour

5.3
A type of flour made from whole wheat that keeps the bran
  • noun
  • /ˈɡreɪ.əm flɔːr/
  • US
translation icon : harina graham
  • She baked the bread with graham flour to give it a hearty texture.

Examples

  • Graham flour is a good source of fiber because it contains the wheat bran.

  • I need some graham flour for the recipe.

  • The recipe calls for equal parts graham flour and white flour.

  • Can you buy graham flour at the store?

  • I use graham flour to make my favorite homemade graham crackers.

  • During the baking class, we learned how to bake a cake using graham flour instead of regular flour.

  • You can create a delicious pie crust by mixing melted butter with graham flour and sugar.

Synonyms

graham
vsgraham flour
  • US
5 4.2

A whole wheat flour or a sweet cracker made from it used in desserts

is the milled product sense alone, not the cracker food
wheat flour
vsgraham flour
4 1.0

Powder from wheat used for baking and cooking

specifies use of the whole grain including the bran rather than refined grain
whole wheat flour
vsgraham flour
  • US
2 2.5

Powder made from whole wheat used for baking bread

includes the bran but does not specify germ or endosperm
whole meal flour
vsgraham flour
  • UK
3.5

Powder made by grinding whole wheat grain including the bran

is the same concept but differs mainly in regional naming

Surface Forms

graham flour singular
graham flours plural

Morphology

graham + flour

The meaning 'a type of whole-wheat flour' is directly derivable from combining 'graham' (a whole-wheat product or cracker made from whole wheat) with 'flour' (ground cereal grain). The '[type] + flour' compounding is a regular, compositional pattern in English (and mirrored in many languages), so a learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

The name graham flour comes from Graham, the last name of Sylvester Graham, an American writer in the 1800s who told people to eat whole grain. He liked coarse flour that kept the bran, so his name became the name of this kind of flour, and today graham flour means 'whole-wheat flour' that still contains the bran.