the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water | animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds |
a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids | one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens |
| oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food |