Thursday, January 26, 2012

What is Zein?

Glad you asked.  Allow me to share:

ze·in

  [zee-in]  
noun
1.
Biochemistry a soft, yellow powder of simple proteinsobtained from corn, used chiefly in the manufacture oftextile fibers, plastics, and paper coatings.
2.
a synthetic fiber produced from this protein.

The third definition, which dictionary.com failed to add, is:

3.  A 102 point word in Words with Friends



Kern gets mad when I play words that I don't know.  Well, I do know zein, along with plenty of biochem majors!  And now I have expanded even more people's vocabulary.

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