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egg white

American

[eg wahyt, hwahyt] / ˈɛg ˌwaɪt, ˌʰwaɪt /

noun

the white of an egg, especially a hen's egg, used in cooking; albumen.

egg white British

noun

the white of an egg; albumen

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Noun Inflected Forms

egg whites

plural

Etymology

Origin of egg white

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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Under the proposal, other labels like, "egg yolk", "egg white" and "escalope" would be restricted to products that contain meat.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025

Eventually, membrane or no, there will be some gas exchange, causing the egg white to become more watery and leak into the yolk, ultimately breaking the yolk.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2025

The concentration of protein in egg white is a bit higher, so it doesn't take long to create a stable foam.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2024

This membrane surrounds the soft contents of the egg interior, being either the egg white and yolk from table eggs, or the developing chick embryo in a fertilized and incubated egg.

From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2024

Then, two days after Henrietta went home from the hospital, Mary saw what looked like little rings of fried egg white around the clots at the bottoms of each tube.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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