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- Albumen - n. - The white of an egg.
- Albumen - n. - 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.
- Albumen - n. - Same as Albumin.
- Albumenize - v. t. - To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albumenize paper.
- Albumenized - imp. & p. p. - of Albumenize
- Albumenizing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Albumenize
- Albuminimeter - n. - An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid.
- Exalbuminous - a. - Having no albumen about the embryo; -- said of certain seeds.
- Cocoanut - n. - The large, hard-shelled nut of the cocoa palm. It yields an agreeable milky liquid and a white meat or albumen much used as food and in making oil.
- Ruminated - a. - Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
- Perisperm - n. - The albumen of a seed, especially that portion which is formed outside of the embryo sac.
- Vegeto-animal - a. - Partaking of the nature both of vegetable and animal matter; -- a term sometimes applied to vegetable albumen and gluten, from their resemblance to similar animal products.
- Albuminose - a. - Pertaining to, or containing, albumen; having the properties of, or resembling, albumen or albumin.
- Endosperm - n. - The albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.