oxalacetic acid

1. 1.

   an acid formed by oxidation of maleic acid (as in metabolism of fats and carbohydrates)

   Synonymsoxaloacetic acid

   Broaderacid

Questions about oxalacetic acid

What does oxalacetic acid mean?

oxalacetic acid means "an acid formed by oxidation of maleic acid (as in metabolism of fats and carbohydrates)".

What is another word for oxalacetic acid?

Close synonyms include oxaloacetic 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 oxalacetic acid a common word?

oxalacetic 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.