myristic acid

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   a saturated fatty acid occurring naturally in animal and vegetable fats

   Synonymstetradecanoic acid

   Broadersaturated fatty acid

Questions about myristic acid

What does myristic acid mean?

myristic acid means "a saturated fatty acid occurring naturally in animal and vegetable fats".

What is another word for myristic acid?

Close synonyms include tetradecanoic 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 myristic acid a common word?

myristic 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.