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essential amino acid is a noun meaning "an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet". It carries one recorded sense.
an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for essential amino acid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.