Albugineous

a. [f. mod.L. albūgine-us (f. albūgin-em, see albūgo) + -OUS.] a. = ALBUGINEAN. b. Of the nature of the white of an egg, albuminous.

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1543. Traheron, trans. Vigo’s Chirurg. (1586), 430. Albugineus is that, y^t pertaineth to the white of the eye.

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1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 60. You shall observe in perfect Sanguineous Animals a circulation of an albugineous chylic-matter before the bloud have a being.

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1836–9. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., II. 263/2. An elementary organic solid, called by him the albugineous fibre.

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