octadecanoic acid

1. 1.

   a waxy saturated fatty acid; occurs widely as a glyceride in animal and vegetable fats

   Synonymsstearic acid

   Broadersaturated fatty acid

Questions about octadecanoic acid

What does octadecanoic acid mean?

octadecanoic acid means "a waxy saturated fatty acid; occurs widely as a glyceride in animal and vegetable fats".

What is another word for octadecanoic acid?

Close synonyms include stearic 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 octadecanoic acid a common word?

octadecanoic 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.