Definitions for aleurone

aleurone al·eu·rone

Spelling: [al-yuh-rohn, uh-loo r<
IPA: /ˈæl yəˌroʊn, əˈlʊər oʊn/

Aleurone is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 237 anagrams from letters in aleurone (aeelnoru).

Definitions for aleurone

noun

  1. protein granules (aleurone grains) found in a single layer of cells (aleurone layer) in the outermost portion of the endosperm.

Origin of aleurone

First recorded in 1865-70, aleurone is from the Greek word áleuron flour, meal

Examples for aleurone

The cells contain no starch, the reserve food supply being stored cellulose, protein, and aleurone grains.

Sucrose also augments in the aleurone layer, but starch is never formed in the aleurone cells.

Within short, starch will become a side product of aleurone meal.

This parenchymatous mass consists of oval cells filled with fatty matter and granules of aleurone.

Nearest the skin will be seen the triple layer of aleurone cells already referred to (fig. 7).

At present aleurone meal is a side product in starch factories.

The deposit consists of aleurone and the active enzymic substance, together with about 80 per cent.

This pulpy substance, formed entirely of oval cells filled with aleurone, consists of two distinct layers.

Word Value for aleurone
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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