tetradecanoic acid

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   a saturated fatty acid occurring naturally in animal and vegetable fats

   Synonymsmyristic acid

   Broadersaturated fatty acid

Questions about tetradecanoic acid

What does tetradecanoic acid mean?

tetradecanoic acid means "a saturated fatty acid occurring naturally in animal and vegetable fats".

What is another word for tetradecanoic acid?

Close synonyms include myristic 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 tetradecanoic acid a common word?

tetradecanoic 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.