Rennin

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An enzyme that catalyzes the coagulation of milk, found in the gastric juice of the fourth stomach of young ruminants and used in making cheeses and junkets. Also called chymosin, rennet.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A proteolytic enzyme, obtained the gastric juice of the abomasum of calves, used to coagulate milk and make cheese
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A milk-clotting enzyme obtained from the true stomach (abomasum) of a suckling calf. Mol. wt. about 31,000. Also called chymosin, rennase, and abomasal enzyme.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as chymosin.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an enzyme that occurs in gastric juice; causes milk to coagulate
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    enzyme    coagulase   
    Variant
    chymosin    rennase    abomasal enzyme   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    chymosin   
     
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