palmitic acid

1. 1.

   a saturated fatty acid that is the major fat in meat and dairy products

   Synonymshexadecanoic acid

   Broadersaturated fatty acid

Questions about palmitic acid

What does palmitic acid mean?

palmitic acid means "a saturated fatty acid that is the major fat in meat and dairy products".

What is another word for palmitic acid?

Close synonyms include hexadecanoic 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 palmitic acid a common word?

palmitic 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.