albuminousadj.
/alˈbjuːmᵻnəs/, U.S. /ælˈbjumənəs/ 1. Of the nature or character of albumen; resembling or containing egg white. Also: containing albumin; rich in protein, proteinaceous (now archaic and rare).
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [adjective] > ovum > white or albumen
albuginous1577
whited1599
albugineous1615
albuminous1634
albuminose1821
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xx. iv. 765 The long and broad wormes are oftentimes stretched alongst all the guts, being like to a mucous or albuminous substance [L. mucosae & albuminosae substantiae].
1696 J. Floyer Preternatural State Animal Humours ii. 9 The Fibrous Parts of the Blood are produced from the Viscid Particles of the Albuminous Liquor.
a1713 W. Salmon Ars Anatomica (1714) 373/2 The Albuminous Matter latent in the Eggs.
1791 W. Nicholson Chem. 514 The albuminous part, or serum, coagulates.
1826 J. Bell & R. La Roche tr. F. J. V. Broussais Treat. Physiol. appl. Pathol. ii. x. 460 When these adenites pass into a chronic state, whole limbs are seen converted into great albuminous or lardaceous masses.
1879 C. Cameron in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 368/1 In the case of young animals, a diet rich in albuminous substances is necessary.
1919 Cosmopolitan Dec. 162/1 (advt.) The film [on teeth] is albuminous matter. The object of Pepsodent is to dissolve it, then to constantly combat it.
1967 H. Hill & E. Dodsworth Food Inspection Notes (ed. 7) 27 Flesh soapy to touch (albuminous).
2007 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 26 Aug. (Women's Fashion Mag.) 124 Having egg on your face is not always a bad thing: Joey New York's Egg Cream Collection offers a whole range of albuminous beauty products.
2. Botany. Of a seed: containing a store of nutrients in the form of a persistent endosperm (cf. albumen n. 2). Also (of a plant): †producing such seeds (obsolete).
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [adjective] > of parts > relating to or having albumen
albuminous1800
perispermic1819
perispermal1847
1800 J. Hull Elements Bot. II. 172 Astragalus... Seeds somewhat albuminous.
1821 tr. A. P. de Candolle & K. Sprengel Elements Philos. Plants ii. v. 131 The alternate position of the leaves is peculiar originally to the imperfect and albuminous plants.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 57 Albuminous solitary pendulous seeds.
1879 A. Gray in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) I. ii. 14 Seeds..are distinguished into albuminous and exalbuminous, those supplied with and those destitute of albumen.
1911 D. H. Scott Evol. Plants ii. 49 Now, albuminous seeds are common to Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, though in Gymnosperms the development of the endosperm is absolutely different.
1968 Bot. Rev. 34 2 The apparent mechanisms of dormancy..appear to fall into two distinct morphologic categories: those occurring in albuminous seeds, and those in non-albuminous seeds.
2006 Plant Cell 18 1961/1 In castor bean..and other albuminous oilseeds, oilbodies can be found in the endosperm.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > bland or insipid
colourlessc1425
unsavouryc1449
wearish?1533
wersha1599
tasteless1603
tame1604
juiceless1620
water gruela1627
dry1632
soulless1632
frigid1643
vapid1656
insipida1684
fade1715
heartless1780
vapid1785
achromatic1799
sauceless1817
albuminous1858
antiseptic1891
flat-footed1899
unatmospheric1913
defanged1920
anodyne1933
spiceless1942
tea-party1961
nothingburger1965
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. i. 381 Nothing but a kind of albuminous simplicity noticeable in them [sc. the children]; no wit, originality, brightness in the way of uttered intellect.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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