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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Alternative form of reinette.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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Synonyms: renneting
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: organic compound
History
From 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”). Compare also Middle English renelesse, renels, renlys, rendlys (“rennet”), Middle Dutch rinsel, runsel (“rennet”), German Rennsel; further to Middle English irennen (“to curdle; to run”), Old English ġerennan (“to coagulate”), Old High German girunst (“rennet”), German gerinnen (“to coagulate; congeal”).
Anglicized form of reinette.
Across languages
107 source translations are retained for this English entry.
