Definition of Proteinaceous

1. Adjective. Relating to or of the nature of protein.

Partainyms: Protein
Derivative terms: Protein

Definition of Proteinaceous

1. a. Of or related to protein; albuminous; proteid.

Definition of Proteinaceous

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or consisting of protein ¹

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Definition of Proteinaceous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Proteinaceous

proteiform
protein
protein complex
protein complexes
protein domain
protein domains
protein folding
protein kinase
protein kinases
protein molecule
protein phosphorylation
protein shake
protein shakes
protein subunit
protein subunits
proteinaceous (current term)
proteinase
proteinases
proteinemia
proteinic
proteinless
proteinlike
proteinogenic
proteinoid
proteinoids
proteinomics
proteinomimetic
proteinomimetics
proteinopathies
proteinopathy

Literary usage of Proteinaceous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"During this period the tubes con'ain protoplasm, a larger or smaller quantity of a mucilaginous proteinaceous substance, and sometimes starch. ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1861)
"Undoubtedly albumen is to be regarded as the type of the proteinaceous bodies; but, nevertheless, it is not identically the same substance, ..."

3. Text-book of Botany: Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1875)
"The modification of proteinaceous substance insoluble in dilute acids and ... The threads of the net-work arc composed of the insoluble proteinaceous ..."

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