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albuminous
[ al-byoo-muh-nuhs ]
adjective
- of, containing, or resembling albumen.
albuminous
/ æ±ôˈ²úÂá³Ü˳¾Éª²ÔÉ™²õ /
adjective
- of or containing albumin
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of albuminous1
Example Sentences
Don’t let the mixture boil, or the whites will turn to albuminous ribbons, the yolks to rubble, and the lovely color, like a newly painted parlor, will be wrecked.
Flowers in the axils of chaffy scales or glumes arranged in spikes or spikelets, without evident perianth; stamens 1–3; ovary 1-celled, 1-seeded; seed albuminous.
But if we arrive at that, we shall at the same time have produced organic life, for life, from its lowest to its highest forms, is but the normal mode of existence of albuminous bodies.
To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albuminize paper.
The exudation, on the contrary, is highly albuminous, though less so than the blood-plasma; it contains numerous leucocytes and much fibrin; under ordinary circumstances there are but few red blood-corpuscles.
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