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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gluten \Glu"ten\, n. [L., glue: cf F. gluten. See {Glue}.] (Chem.) The viscid, tenacious substance which gives adhesiveness to dough. Note: Gluten is a complex and variable mixture of glutin or gliadin, vegetable fibrin, vegetable casein, oily material, etc., and ia a very nutritious element of food. It may be separated from the flour of grain by subjecting this to a current of water, the starch and other soluble matters being thus washed out {Gluten bread}, bread containing a large proportion of gluten; -- used in cases of diabetes. {Gluten casein} (Chem.), a vegetable proteid found in the seeds of grasses, and extracted as a dark, amorphous, earthy mass. {Gluten fibrin} (Chem.), a vegetable proteid found in the cereal grains, and extracted as an amorphous, brownish yellow substance. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gluten n : a protein substance that remains when starch is removed from cereal grains; gives cohesiveness to dough
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