aleurone

[Gr. ἄλευρον (aleuron) = fine flour.] Chem. A name for the protein granules found in the endosperm of ripe seeds and in the cotyledons of the embryo. * a-lěv-on, a Old form of ELEVEN. *a-lew, s. [HALLOO.] A clamour, outcry, howling, lamentation. "Yet did she not lament, with loud alew As women wont, but with deep sighs and singulfs few." Spenser: F... V. vi. 13. ale'-wife, a-lôof (pl. alewives or aloofs ), s. [North Amer. Indian.] Zool. Clupea serrata, an American fish of the Herring genus.