decanoic acid

1. 1.

   a fatty acid found in animal oils and fats; has an unpleasant smell resembling goats

   Synonymscapric acid

   Broadersaturated fatty acid

Questions about decanoic acid

What does decanoic acid mean?

decanoic acid means "a fatty acid found in animal oils and fats; has an unpleasant smell resembling goats".

What is another word for decanoic acid?

Close synonyms include capric 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 decanoic acid a common word?

decanoic 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.