avidin

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Etymology

From Latin avidus (“hungry”) +‎ -in, based on its "hunger" for biotin.

Noun

avidin (countable and uncountable, plural avidins)

  1. (biology) A tetrameric protein produced in the oviducts of birds, reptiles and amphibians and deposited in the whites of their eggs.

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