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Definition of Aleuron
1. aleurone [n -S] - See also: aleurone
Medical Definition of Aleuron
1. Protein granules in the endosperm of seeds, supposed to contain the vitamins of edible seeds and grains. Origin: G. Flour (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aleuron
Literary usage of Aleuron
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Applied and Economic Botany for Students in Technical and Agricultural by Wilfred William Robbins (1896)
"In order to observe the aleuron grains it is advisable to fix them with a 2$ ...
The aleuron-grains consist of a basal substance and chemically different ..."
2. Transactions of the Canadian Institute by Canadian Institute (1849-1914)., Royal Canadian Institute (1904)
"The individual aleuron grains on addition of water appeared to consist of a
central core which was more or less soluble in water, salt solutions, ..."
3. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"aleuron. In the dry seeds of many plants there may be found, sometimes in a
definite layer of cells, sometimes scattered throughout the cells of the ..."
4. Organic Agricultural Chemistry (the Chemistry of Plants and Animals); a by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1916)
"The solid protein bodies resulting are known as aleuron grains. They are found
in a certain layer in the seed known as the aleuron layer, as in castor oil ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"Both aleuron and digitalis, harmless in themselves to animals, produced a marked
leucocytosis, but they differed essentially in the fact that after the ..."
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