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albumen [ˈælbjʊmɪn -mɛn] n 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the white of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance, mostly an albumin, that surrounds the yolk 2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) a rare name for endosperm 3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) a variant spelling of albumin [from Latin: white of an egg, from albus white]
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| They had curled-hair works for the cattle tails, and a "wool pullery" for the sheepskins; they made pepsin from the stomachs of the pigs, and albumen from the blood, and violin strings from the ill-smelling entrails. Again in another work he says, the genera of the Connaraceae 'differ in having one or more ovaria, in the existence or absence of albumen, in the imbricate or valvular aestivation. |
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