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OVALBUMIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ovalbumin mean?
• OVALBUMIN (noun)
The noun OVALBUMIN has 1 sense:
1. the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
Familiarity information: OVALBUMIN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
albumen; egg white; ovalbumin; white
Context example:
she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs
Hypernyms ("ovalbumin" is a kind of...):
fixings; ingredient (food that is a component of a mixture in cooking)
Holonyms ("ovalbumin" is a part of...):
egg; eggs (oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food)
Context examples
OVA-BiP peptide consists of 8 amino acids from ovalbumin joined via a tripeptide linker to a stretch of 8 amino acids, the minimum binding domain of BiP (immunoglobulin heavy chain-binding protein, aka grp78), a member of the heat shock protein (hsp) 70 family.
(OVA BiP Peptide, NCI Thesaurus)
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