Albumen

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Albumen \Al*bu"men\, n. [L., fr. albus white.]
     1. The white of an egg.
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     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.
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     3. (Chem.) Same as {Albumin}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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