lauric acid

1. 1.

   a crystalline fatty acid occurring as glycerides in natural fats and oils (especially coconut oil and palm-kernel oil)

   Synonymsdodecanoic acid

   Broadersaturated fatty acid

Questions about lauric acid

What does lauric acid mean?

lauric acid means "a crystalline fatty acid occurring as glycerides in natural fats and oils (especially coconut oil and palm-kernel oil)".

What is another word for lauric acid?

Close synonyms include dodecanoic 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 lauric acid a common word?

lauric 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.