a. [f. as prec. + -OUS; cf. Fr. albumineux.]

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  1.  Of the nature or character of albumen or albumin; having the same composition as the white of an egg.

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1791.  Nicholson, Chem., 514. The albuminous part, or serum, coagulates.

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1879.  C. Cameron, in Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 368/1. In the case of young animals, a diet rich in albuminous substances is necessary.

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  2.  Bot. Containing a store of albumen in the seed: see ALBUMEN 3.

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1830.  Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 57. Albuminous solitary pendulous seeds.

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1842.  Gray, Struct. Bot., ii. (1880), 14. Seeds are distinguished into albuminous and exalbuminous, those supplied with and those destitute of albumen.

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  3.  fig. Insipid.

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1865.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., III. IX. i. 65. Nothing but a kind of albuminous simplicity noticeable in them; no wit, originality, brightness in the way of uttered intellect.

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