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RENNET

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("rennet" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (substance of "rennet"):

chymosin; rennin (an enzyme that occurs in gastric juice; causes milk to coagulate)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb rennet

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