{Cheese rennet}. (Bot.) See under {Cheese}.
{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.
{Rennet stomach} (Anat.), the fourth stomach, or abomasum, of
ruminants.