albumen
3 synonyms for albumen, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — Another word for egg white, the clear liquid inside an egg that turns solid and white when cooked.
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albumin
ovalbumin
Etymology
A learned borrowing from Late Latin albūmen (“egg white, albumen; type of eye disease”), which also gave Late Middle English albuminium (“clear fluid in the eyeball between the cornea and lens, aqueous humour”). It was formed from Latin albus (“white”, adjective) — ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”,...
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