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fatty acids

fatty acids is the plural of fatty acid.

Meaning of fatty acid

Noun

fatty acid (plural fatty acids)

  1. Any of a class of aliphatic carboxylic acids, of general formula CₙH₂ₙ₊₁COOH, that occur combined with glycerol as animal or vegetable oils and fats. Only those with an even number of carbon atoms are normally found in natural fats.

Questions about fatty acids

What is fatty acids the plural of?
Fatty acids is the plural of fatty acid.

Words near fatty acids in the dictionary

  1. fattoush
  2. fattrels
  3. FATTs
  4. fatty
  5. fatty acid
  6. fatty acids
  7. fatty alcohol
  8. fatty alcohols
  9. fatty bom bom
  10. fatty bom boms
  11. fatty boombalatties

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