rennet
An enzyme used as the first step in making cheese, to curdle the milk and coagulate…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.
» When rennet is added, heated milk curdles, and the curds separate from the liquid whey.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)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.
Lab
ре́ннинrénnin
a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket
Examples
1 sentencesWhen rennet is added, heated milk curdles, and the curds separate from the liquid whey.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English rennet, from Old English *rynnet, *ġerynnet, from Proto-West GermanicFrom Middle English rennet, from Old English *rynnet, *ġerynnet, from Proto-West Germanic *garunniþu (“coagulation, curdling, rennet”), cognate with Old Saxon girunnida (“a running together, coagulation”), Old High German girunnida (“rennet, coagulation”), Middle High German gerinnede (“that which is curdled”).
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Forms
plural: rennetsWord family
10 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable