para aminobenzoic acid

1. 1.

   a metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells; used to make dyes and drugs and sun blockers

   SynonymsPABA

   Broaderacid

Questions about para aminobenzoic acid

What does para aminobenzoic acid mean?

para aminobenzoic acid means "a metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells; used to make dyes and drugs and sun blockers".

What is another word for para aminobenzoic acid?

Close synonyms include PABA. 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 para aminobenzoic acid a common word?

para aminobenzoic 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.