Unmilled

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Describing grain or seeds that have not undergone the process of removing their outer husks or bran layers ; referring to materials left in their natural, untouched state without refinement or polishing ; characterizing products that retain their original coverings and have not been processed for smoothness or purity
2. Pertaining to agricultural produce that remains in its raw form with outer shells still intact ; indicating items that have not been subjected to milling or mechanical treatment to separate components ; defining substances preserved in their initial coarse or unrefined condition without alteration
3. Relating to cereals or grains still possessing their chaff or hulls due to absence of grinding or processing ; denoting goods kept whole without being ground, polished, or cleaned ; signifying entities that maintain their full, natural outer layers as opposed to being processed into a refined state

Etymology: "Unmilled" is simply the prefix "un-", meaning "not", attached to "milled," the past participle of "mill," used as an adjective. So the word means "not milled," and the adjective describes grain, rice or other produce that has not been ground or processed into flour or polished to remove its outer layers. The surprising part lies in "mill" itself, a word that long predates its later mechanical sense. Its ancestry runs through the Latin "molere," "to grind," which also gave English "meal." That makes "unmilled" a compound built on an ancient verb for grinding, though the prefix is the English part of the story.

Synonyms: unprocessed, raw, whole, unrefined, natural

Antonyms: milled, processed, refined, finished