avidin

== English == === Etymology === From Latin avidus (“hungry”) +‎ -in, based on its "hunger" for biotin. === Noun === avidin (countable and uncountable, plural avidins) (biology) A tetrameric protein produced in the oviducts of birds, reptiles and amphibians and deposited in the whites of their eggs. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Vidian