hexadecanoic acid

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   a saturated fatty acid that is the major fat in meat and dairy products

   Synonymspalmitic acid

   Broadersaturated fatty acid

Questions about hexadecanoic acid

What does hexadecanoic acid mean?

hexadecanoic acid means "a saturated fatty acid that is the major fat in meat and dairy products".

What is another word for hexadecanoic acid?

Close synonyms include palmitic 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 hexadecanoic acid a common word?

hexadecanoic 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.