[syn: egg white, white, albumen, ovalbumin]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Albumen \Al*bu"men\, n. [L., fr. albus white.]
1. The white of an egg.
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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.
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3. (Chem.) Same as Albumin.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
albumen
n 1: a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues
and liquids [syn: albumin, albumen]
2: the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective
gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly
of albumin dissolved in water; "she separated the whites from
the yolks of several eggs" [syn: egg white, white,
albumen, ovalbumin]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "albumen":
batter, bonnyclabber, butter, caviar, clabber, cornstarch, cream,
curd, dough, egg, egg white, eggshell, fish eggs, gaum, gel,
gelatin, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gruel, gumbo,
gunk, jam, jell, jelly, loblolly, molasses, mucilage, mucus, ovule,
pap, paste, porridge, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, rob, roe,
semifluid, semiliquid, size, soup, spawn, starch, sticky mess,
syrup, treacle, vitellus, white, yellow, yolk