elaeostearic acid

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   a crystalline unsaturated fatty acid

   Synonymseleostearic acid

   Broaderunsaturated fatty acid

Questions about elaeostearic acid

What does elaeostearic acid mean?

elaeostearic acid means "a crystalline unsaturated fatty acid".

What is another word for elaeostearic acid?

Close synonyms include eleostearic 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 elaeostearic acid a common word?

elaeostearic 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.