(n) the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water, Syn. albumen, ovalbumin, white, Example:she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs
{ } n. [ Ovum + albumin. ] (Physiol. Chem.) The albumin from white of eggs; egg albumin; -- in distinction from serum albumin. See Albumin. [ 1913 Webster ]