docosahexaenoic acid

1. 1.

   an omega-3 fatty acid with 22 carbon atoms; found in fish (especially tuna and bluefish)

   Broaderomega-3 fatty acid

Questions about docosahexaenoic acid

What does docosahexaenoic acid mean?

docosahexaenoic acid means "an omega-3 fatty acid with 22 carbon atoms; found in fish (especially tuna and bluefish)".

Is docosahexaenoic acid a common word?

docosahexaenoic 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.