aminoalkanoic acid

1. 1.

   organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group

   “proteins are composed of various proportions of about 20 common amino acids”

   Synonymsamino acid

   Broaderorganic compound

   Narroweralanineasparagineaspartic acidcanavaninecitrullinecysteinecystinedopaessential amino acidgamma aminobutyric acid

Questions about aminoalkanoic acid

What does aminoalkanoic acid mean?

aminoalkanoic acid means "organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group".

What is another word for aminoalkanoic acid?

Close synonyms include amino acid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aminoalkanoic acid a common word?

aminoalkanoic acid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.