rennet : Idioms & Phrases
Cheese rennet
(Bot.) , a plant of the Madder family (Golium verum , or yellow bedstraw), sometimes used to coagulate milk. The roots are used as a substitute for madder. Cheese vat, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and cut or broken, in cheese making.
Webster 1913
Rennet ferment
(Physiol. Chem.) , a ferment, present in rennet and in variable quantity in the gastric juice of most animals, which has the power of curdling milk. The ferment presumably acts by changing the casein of milk from a soluble to an insoluble form.
Webster 1913
Rennet stomach
(Anat.) , the fourth stomach, or abomasum, of ruminants.