aspartic acid

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   a crystalline amino acid found in proteins and occurring naturally in sugar beets and sugar cane

   Broaderamino acid

Questions about aspartic acid

What does aspartic acid mean?

aspartic acid means "a crystalline amino acid found in proteins and occurring naturally in sugar beets and sugar cane".

Is aspartic acid a common word?

aspartic 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.