[1785–95; ‹ LL albūmin-, s. of albūmenalbumen + -ous]This word is first recorded in the period 1785–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: crossover, initiative, logrolling, plateau, terrorist-ous is a suffix forming adjectives that have the general sense “possessing, full of”a given quality (covetous; glorious; nervous; wondrous); -ous and its variant -ious have often been used to Anglicize Latin adjectives with terminations that cannotbe directly adapted into English (atrocious; contiguous; garrulous; obvious; stupendous). As an adjective-forming suffix of neutral value, it regularly Anglicizes Greekand Latin adjectives derived without suffix from nouns and verbs; many such formationsare productive combining forms in English, sometimes with a corresponding nominalcombining form that has no suffix (as -fer and -ferous; -phore and -phorous; -pter and -pterous; -vore and -vorous)
Examples of 'albuminous' in a sentence
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Seeds are albuminous, with a ruminated and oleaginous endosperm.
Hamilton César de Oliveira Charlo, Fabíola Vitti Môro, Vanessa Lorencini da Silva,Breno Marques da Silva e Silva, Silvano Bianco, José Roberto Môro 2006, 'Aspectos morfológicos, germinação e desenvolvimento inicial de plântulas de Archontophoenixalexandrae (F. Mueller) H. Wendl. e Drude (Arecaceae) em diferentes substratos Morphologicalaspects, germination and initial seedling development of Archontophoenix alexandrae(F. Mueller) H. Wendl. e Drude (Arecaceae) in different substrates', Revista Árvorehttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-67622006000600008. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Noni seeds are albuminous and have a thick seed coat, rich in lignin.
Stelamaris de Oliveira Paula, João Alencar de Sousa, Edy Sousa de Brito, Maria IzabelGallão 2016, 'The morphological characterization of the dry seeds and reserve mobilization duringgermination in Morinda citrifolia L.', Revista Ciência Agronômicahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-66902016000300556&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
I conclude therefore that isinglass contains some, though perhaps very little, soluble albuminous matter.
Charles Darwin Insectivorous Plants (1875). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)
Meaningful correlative connections are exposed statistically between the intermediate products of carbohydrate, lipidic, albuminous exchange and lipid peroxidation.
Evdokimov E.I., Golec V.A. 2012, 'Intercommunication of factors the energy products and peroxidation at training', Fizičeskoe Vospitanie Studentovhttp://www.sportedu.org.ua/html/journal/2012-N3/12eeippt.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)