Gluten Definition

glo͝otn
noun
A gray, sticky, nutritious mixture of proteins, including gliadin, found in wheat and other grain: it gives dough its tough, elastic quality.
Webster's New World
Any of the prolamins found in cereal grains, especially the prolamins in wheat, rye, barley, and possibly oats, that cause digestive disorders such as celiac disease.
American Heritage

(rare, geology) A gluey, sticky mass of clay, bitumen etc. [from 19th c.]

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Other Word Forms of Gluten

Noun

Singular:
gluten
Plural:
glutens

Origin of Gluten

  • From French gluten, borrowed from Latin glūten (“glue”).

    From Wiktionary

  • French from Latin glūten glue

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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