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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
albumen is a noun meaning "a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for albumen come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.