Word.ws English Dictionary

caseine

caseine is the obsolete spelling of casein.

Meaning of casein

Noun

casein (countable and uncountable, plural caseins)

  1. A protein present in both milk and in the seeds of leguminous plants.
    • Since writing this report, we found that the intravenous injection of nucleoprotein, casein, and probably also other albuminous substances may produce small necroses of liver tissue in the guinea pig. This observation points to a possible danger in the use of casein solutions."1913 May 25, “COLLOIDAL COPPER'S VALUE IN CANCER CASES CONFIRMED; […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2025
    Synonyms:
    legumine

Questions about caseine

What is caseine the obsolete spelling of?
Caseine is the obsolete spelling of casein.

Words near caseine in the dictionary

  1. casein
  2. caseinase
  3. caseinases
  4. caseinate
  5. caseinates
  6. caseine
  7. caseinogen
  8. caseinogens
  9. caseinolysis
  10. caseinolytic
  11. caseins

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: caseine (page history and authors); casein (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “caseine.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/caseine. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.