Definition of rennets Rennets

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rennets, noun, plural of rennet.

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rennet - a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket

organic compound any compound of carbon and another element or a radical

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rennet (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.
rennet (Noun)
A kind of apple.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

rennet (n.)
A name of many different kinds of apples. Cf. Reinette.
rennet (v.)
The inner, or mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young ruminant; also, an infusion or preparation of it, used for coagulating milk.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

rennet
ren′et, n. prepared inner membrane of a calf's stomach, used to make milk coagulate—also Runn′et.—v.t. to treat with rennet.—n. Renn′et-bag, the fourth stomach of a ruminant. [A.S. rinnan, to run; Old Dut. rinsel, curds.]
rennet
ren′et, n. a sweet kind of apple. [O. Fr. reinette, dim. of reine, queen—L. regina, a queen; or rainette, dim. of raine, a frog—L. rana.]

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rennet, noun, singular of rennets.

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