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Word entry · 6 letters

gluten

Best crossword clue

"Wheat protein"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡluːtən/Part of speech nounSorted eglntuStarts with GEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
1G2L3U4T5E6N

Definitions

  1. A protein in wheat and related grains that gives dough elasticity.

Word origin

From Middle French gluten, borrowed from Latin glūten (“glue”).

Used in a sentence

  • The Radicall or innate, is dayly ſupplied by nouriſhment, which ſome call Cambium, and make thoſe ſecundary Humors of Ros and Gluten to maintaine it: […]
  • [H]is nose is running in bubbly gluten over his lips onto his chin […].
  • The tyrant machine is the female body, grinding and milling the pulp of matter, the gluten of human flesh.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

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