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RENNET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rennet mean?
• RENNET (noun)
The noun RENNET has 1 sense:
1. a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket
Familiarity information: RENNET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("rennet" is a kind of...):
organic compound (any compound of carbon and another element or a radical)
Meronyms (substance of "rennet"):
chymosin; rennin (an enzyme that occurs in gastric juice; causes milk to coagulate)
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