Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A protein found in egg yolk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The chief proteid constituent of the yolk of eggs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol. Chem.) An albuminous body, belonging to the class of globulins, obtained from yolk of egg, of which it is the chief proteid constituent, and from the seeds of many plants. From the latter it can be separated in crystalline form.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biochemistry A
protein found inegg yolk
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[vitell(us) + –in.]
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Examples
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In animal foods myosin in meat and vitellin, found in the yolk of the egg, and some of the proteids of the blood, are examples of globulins.
Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Harry Snyder
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