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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
glyceride is a noun meaning "an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils". It carries one recorded sense.
an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils
“fresh fats contain glycerides of fatty acids and very little free acid”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for glyceride come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.