rennet

About 0.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An enzyme used as the first step in making cheese, to curdle the milk and coagulate the casein in it, derived by soaking the fourth stomach of a milk-fed calf in brine.
2. noun Alternative form of reinette.

Similar words

whey casein zymogen enzym rennin rennase caseinase renninogen caseinate casease

Often followed by

is and extract or in coagulation to casein ferment

Word family

rennets