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GELATINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gelatine mean?
• GELATINE (noun)
The noun GELATINE has 1 sense:
1. a colorless water-soluble glutinous protein obtained from animal tissues such as bone and skin
Familiarity information: GELATINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A colorless water-soluble glutinous protein obtained from animal tissues such as bone and skin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
gelatin; gelatine
Hypernyms ("gelatine" is a kind of...):
albuminoid; scleroprotein (a simple protein found in horny and cartilaginous tissues and in the lens of the eye)
Derivation:
gelatinous (thick like gelatin)
Context examples
“Among those gelatine cultivations some of the very worst offenders in the world are now doing time.”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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