albo-, alb-, -albify; albus
(Latin: white; pale)
This unit is directly related to the albumino- unit.
daub
1. To put or spread a semiliquid substance such as mud, paint, or cream, on a surface in a crude, hurried, or irregular way: "The boys daubed slogans all over the walls."
2. To paint or to apply paint crudely.
3. A patch, splash, or smear of a semiliquid substance applied to something in a crude, hurried, or irregular way.
4. A mixture of clay, lime, and chopped straw plastered onto interwoven rods or twigs to make a wall.
5. Etymology: from Old French dauber, "to whitewash, to plaster", probably from Latin dealbare, from de-, "thoroughly" + albare, "to whiten" from albus "white".
2. To paint or to apply paint crudely.
3. A patch, splash, or smear of a semiliquid substance applied to something in a crude, hurried, or irregular way.
4. A mixture of clay, lime, and chopped straw plastered onto interwoven rods or twigs to make a wall.
5. Etymology: from Old French dauber, "to whitewash, to plaster", probably from Latin dealbare, from de-, "thoroughly" + albare, "to whiten" from albus "white".
exalbuminous
1. Having no albumen around the embryo; said of certain seeds.
2. Without albumen (starchy and other nutritive material in a seed, stored as endosperm inside the embryo sac, or as perisperm in the surrounding nucellar cells; any deposit of nutritive material accompanying the embryo).
2. Without albumen (starchy and other nutritive material in a seed, stored as endosperm inside the embryo sac, or as perisperm in the surrounding nucellar cells; any deposit of nutritive material accompanying the embryo).
