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 

• OVALBUMIN (noun)

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)