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fatty acid is a noun meaning "any of a class of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids that form part of a lipid molecule and can be derived from fat by hydrolysis; fatty acids are simple molecules built around a series of carbon atoms linked together in a chain of 12 to 22 carbon atoms". It carries one recorded sense.
any of a class of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids that form part of a lipid molecule and can be derived from fat by hydrolysis; fatty acids are simple molecules built around a series of carbon atoms linked together in a chain of 12 to 22 carbon atoms
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fatty acid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.