Found 3 hits - Term: albumen, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
albumen \albu"men\, n. l., fr. albus white.
1. the white of an egg.
1913 webster
2. bot. nourishing matter stored up within the integuments
of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the
embryo. it is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like
grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in
the cocoanut, etc.
1913 webster
3. chem. same as albumin.
1913 webster
see also:
albumin
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
albumen
n 1: a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues
and liquids syn: albumin
2: the white of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous
substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of
albumin dissolved in water syn: egg white, ovalbumin
see also:
albumin egg white ovalbumin
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
56 moby thesaurus words for "albumen":
batter, bonnyclabber, butter, caviar, clabber, cornstarch, cream,
curd, dough, egg, egg white, eggshell, fish eggs, gaum, gel,
gelatin, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gruel, gumbo,
gunk, jam, jell, jelly, loblolly, molasses, mucilage, mucus, ovule,
pap, paste, porridge, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, rob, roe,
semifluid, semiliquid, size, soup, spawn, starch, sticky mess,
syrup, treacle, vitellus, white, yellow, yolk
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