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lipide

lipide is the archaic form of lipid.

Meaning of lipid

Noun

lipid (plural lipids)

  1. Any of a group of organic compounds including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides. Lipids are characterized by being insoluble in water.
    • Without lipids your body eats your fat and then your muscles, and the brain is pure fat and the heart is a muscle. You become a feedback loop, and then you fall over.2009, Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood, Virago Press (2020), page 384

Forms of lipide

plurallipides

Questions about lipide

What is lipide the archaic form of?
Lipide is the archaic form of lipid.

Words near lipide in the dictionary

  1. lipidates
  2. lipidating
  3. lipidation
  4. lipidations
  5. lipidative
  6. lipide
  7. lipidemia
  8. lipidemias
  9. lipidemic
  10. lipides
  11. lipidic

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