Definitions for aleurones

aleurones al·eu·rone

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

Aleurones is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 529 anagrams from letters in aleurones (aeelnorsu).

Definitions for aleurones

noun

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

Origin of aleurones

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

Examples for aleurones

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for aleurones
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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