Hypertext Webster Gateway: "albumen"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Albumen \Al*bu"men\, n. [L., fr. albus white.]
1. The white of an egg.
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.
3. (Chem.) Same as {Albumin}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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