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Rennet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The inner lining of the fourth stomach of calves and other young ruminants.

n. A dried extract made from the stomach lining of a ruminant, used in cheesemaking to curdle milk.

n. See rennin.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An enzyme used as the first step in making cheese, to curdle the milk and coagulate the casein in it, derived by soaking the fourth stomach of a milk-fed calf in brine.

n. A kind of apple.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A name of many different kinds of apples. Cf. reinette.

n. The inner, or mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young ruminant.

n. an infusion or preparation of the calf stomach lining, used for coagulating milk. The active principle in this coagulating action is the enzyme rennin.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The fourth stomach of a calf prepared for curdling milk; the rennet-bag.

n. Anything used to curdle milk.

To mix or treat with rennet.

n. A kind of apple, said to have been introduced into England in the reign of Henry VIII. Also called renneting.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket

Word Usage

"Cheese and onion crisps do contain rennet, which is a meat by product."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

organic compound

Cross Reference

vegetable rennet

Variant

reinette rennin runnet

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Bennett Senate benet senate sennet tenet

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