Word.ws English Dictionary

palmitate

palmitate noun: any salt or ester of palmitic acid.

Noun

palmitate (plural palmitates)

  1. Any salt or ester of palmitic acid.

Forms of palmitate

pluralpalmitates

Origin of palmitate

From palmitic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

Words formed from palmitate

Questions about palmitate

What does palmitate mean?
Palmitate means any salt or ester of palmitic acid.
What part of speech is palmitate?
Palmitate is a noun.
What is the plural of palmitate?
The plural of palmitate is palmitates.

Words near palmitate in the dictionary

  1. palmistry
  2. palmists
  3. palmita
  4. palmitamide
  5. palmitas
  6. palmitate
  7. palmitates
  8. palmite
  9. palmitelaidic acid
  10. Palmiter
  11. Palmiters

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: palmitate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “palmitate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/palmitate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.