monounsaturated fatty acid

1. 1.

   an unsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has one double or triple valence bond per molecule; found chiefly in olive oil and chicken and almonds

   Broaderunsaturated fatty acid

   Narrowerelaidic acidoleic acid

Questions about monounsaturated fatty acid

What does monounsaturated fatty acid mean?

monounsaturated fatty acid means "an unsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has one double or triple valence bond per molecule; found chiefly in olive oil and chicken and almonds".

Is monounsaturated fatty acid a common word?

monounsaturated fatty 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.