nonproteinaceous

English

Etymology

non- +‎ proteinaceous

Adjective

nonproteinaceous (not comparable)

1. Not proteinaceous.
   • 1943, Louis Albert Henke, Roughages for Dairy Cattle in Hawaii, page 25:

     By taking a price of $5.00 per ton for cane molasses, the most economical local nonproteinaceous feed, the value of each pound of nonprotein nutrients is determined to be $0.0042.

   • 2005, Yoshinori Mine, Nutraceutical Proteins and Peptides in Health and Disease‎^[1], page 418:

     In the meantime, it remains unclear whether a nonproteinaceous constituent in wheat also acts as an allergen. Unlike proteinaceous allergens, some nonproteinaceous substances would be more stable in the body, possibly acting as a remaining allergen to cause a longer-lasting allergic reaction.

   • 2012, Heinz W. Siesler, Biomedical Imaging: Principles and Applications‎^[2], page 192:

     In principle, all of the indicators discussed in Section 6.4.2 can also be employed to visualize biomolecules that are nonproteinaceous (e.g., lipids, nucleic acids, sugars).