glutenin

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gluten +‎ -in

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glutenin (countable and uncountable, plural glutenins)

  1. (biochemistry) The glutelin protein of wheat.
    Hypernym: glutelin
    Coordinate term: gliadin
    • 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 10, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
      The gliadin chains fold onto themselves in a compact mass, and bond weakly with each other and with the glutenin proteins. The glutenins, however, bond with each other in several ways to form an extensive, tightly knit network.

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