noun
flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran; (`whole meal flour' is British usage)
• Syn: ↑whole wheat flour, ↑graham, ↑whole meal flour
• Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain
• Hypernyms: ↑wheat flour
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nounEtymology: after Sylvester Graham died 1851 American advocate of dietary reform
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unbolted wheat flour, containing all of the wheat grain; whole-wheat flour.
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graham flour /grāˈəm flowr/ (mainly US)
noun
A type of wheat flour similar to wholewheat flour, used to make graham bread or crackers
ORIGIN: S Graham (1794–1851), US dietitian
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graham flour,
wheat flour that has not been sifted (bolted); flour made from whole-wheat kernels.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.