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rennet

/ˈɹɛnɪt/ · noun

Meaning

  1. An enzyme used as the first step in making cheese, to curdle the milk and coagulate the casein in it, derived by soaking the fourth stomach of a milk-fed calf in brine.
  2. Any of various kinds of apple, mostly of French origin, characterized by russeting.

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