polyunsaturated

1. 1.

   (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) having many unsaturated bonds

   Similarunsaturated

Questions about polyunsaturated

What does polyunsaturated mean?

polyunsaturated means "(of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) having many unsaturated bonds".

How many syllables are in polyunsaturated?

polyunsaturated has 6 syllables: po-lyun-sa-tu-ra-ted. The stress falls on "tu".

Is polyunsaturated a common word?

polyunsaturated 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.