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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water; "she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs" [syn: egg white, white, albumen, ovalbumin]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1836 1. the principal albumin of white of egg; especially the crystalline part of egg albumins 2. dried whites of eggs

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ovalbumin O`val*bu"min, Ovalbumen O`val*bu"men, n. [Ovum + albumin.] (Physiol. Chem.) The albumin from white of eggs; egg albumin; -- in distinction from serum albumin. See Albumin.