hexanoic acid

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   a fatty acid found in animal oils and fats or made synthetically; smells like goats

   Synonymscaproic acid

   Broadersaturated fatty acid

Questions about hexanoic acid

What does hexanoic acid mean?

hexanoic acid means "a fatty acid found in animal oils and fats or made synthetically; smells like goats".

What is another word for hexanoic acid?

Close synonyms include caproic 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 hexanoic acid a common word?

hexanoic 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.