latherin
Meanings
noun
- A surfactant protein, found in the sweat of equines, which allows sweat to penetrate the waterproof coat and there evaporate and cool the animal.
Word forms
Etymology
From lather + -in from the ability of the protein to produce a frothy lather of sweat on equines.
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