RENNET

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("rennet" is a kind of...):

organic compound (any compound of carbon and another element or a radical)

Meronyms (substance of "rennet"):

chymosin; rennin (an enzyme that occurs in gastric juice; causes milk to coagulate)

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb rennet