avidin
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin avidus (“hungry”) + -in, based on its "hunger" for biotin.
Noun[edit]
avidin (countable and uncountable, plural avidins)
- (biology) A tetrameric protein produced in the oviducts of birds, reptiles and amphibians and deposited in the whites of their eggs.