Albumen

['ælbjʊmɪn] or [æl'bjʊmən]

解釋/意思:

(n.) The white of an egg.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Same as Albumin.

錄入:昆西

解釋/意思:

n. the white of eggs: a like substance found in animal and vegetable bodies.—ns. Albū′min one of the classes of albuminoids such as are soluble in water or in dilute acids or alkalis; Albū′minate one of a class of bodies in which albumin appears in weak combination with a base.—v.t. Albuminise′ (phot.) to cover or impregnate with albumen: to coat paper with an albuminous solution.—adj. Albū′minous like or containing albumen: insipid.

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