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What is a glycoprotein?

What is a glycoprotein? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) A protein with covalently bonded carbohydrates.
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Most of the organic material in saliva is protein, some of which is glycoprotein or mucin, which contains both carbohydrate and protein components.
It was an attenuated strain of the Vaccinia virus which, by adding a single gene, expressed the glycoprotein G of the rabies virus.
Luteinizing hormone is another gonadotropin, a glycoprotein with a molecular weight of 26,000 in man.
Those fields were molecular biology and glycoprotein chemistry and biochemistry.
Cosmetic use of a product comprising a glycoprotein fraction from archaebacteria, excluding any use having a therapeutic effect.
Accordingly, the shape and charge contributed by the carbohydrate side chains of a glycoprotein can affect the protein's mobility on a gel.

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