caprylic acid

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   a fatty acid having a rancid taste; found in butter and other fats and oils

   Broadersaturated fatty acid

Questions about caprylic acid

What does caprylic acid mean?

caprylic acid means "a fatty acid having a rancid taste; found in butter and other fats and oils".

Is caprylic acid a common word?

caprylic 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.