Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To extract the gluten from (wheat flour, for example).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To unglue; loosen or separate by or as if by ungluing.
- To deprive of gluten; extract the gluten from.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To loosen or separate by dissolving the glue which unties; to unglue.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
loosen orseparate bydissolving theglue which unites; tounglue .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin dēglūtināre, dēglūtināt- : dē-, de- + glūten, glutin-, glue.]
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Latin deglutinatus, past participle of deglutinare to deglutinate; de- + glutinare to glue, gluten glue.
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