triglyceride

1. 1.

   glyceride occurring naturally in animal and vegetable tissues; it consists of three individual fatty acids bound together in a single large molecule; an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body

   Broaderlipidglyceride

Other forms of triglyceride

plural

triglycerides·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about triglyceride

What does triglyceride mean?

triglyceride means "glyceride occurring naturally in animal and vegetable tissues; it consists of three individual fatty acids bound together in a single large molecule; an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body".

How many syllables are in triglyceride?

triglyceride has 4 syllables: tri-glyc-e-ride. The stress falls on "glyc". In IPA it is /tɹaɪˈɡlɪsɚˌaɪd/.

Is triglyceride a common word?

triglyceride 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.

What rhymes with triglyceride?

4 words rhyme with triglyceride. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.