margaric acid

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   a colorless crystalline synthetic fatty acid

   Synonymsheptadecanoic acid

   Broadersaturated fatty acid

Questions about margaric acid

What does margaric acid mean?

margaric acid means "a colorless crystalline synthetic fatty acid".

What is another word for margaric acid?

Close synonyms include heptadecanoic 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 margaric acid a common word?

margaric 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.