cerotic acid

1. 1.

   a white solid fatty acid found in waxes (such as beeswax)

   Synonymshexacosanoic acid

   Broaderacid

Questions about cerotic acid

What does cerotic acid mean?

cerotic acid means "a white solid fatty acid found in waxes (such as beeswax)".

What is another word for cerotic acid?

Close synonyms include hexacosanoic 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 cerotic acid a common word?

cerotic 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.