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Amino acid has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group

"proteins are composed of various proportions of about 20 common amino acids"

2

Any organic compound containing both an amino and a carboxylic acid functional group.

Related Terms
storage protein aminoamide anthranilic acid amphipathic naphthylamidase heptadecapeptide oxitriptan hexadecapeptide diphthamide semialdehyde selenocysteine septapeptide beta amino acid ornithine dihydroxyphenylalanine sphingofungin acetylphosphate myriocin deoxyhypusine forkhead
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
organic compound
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
alanine asparagine aspartic acid canavanine citrulline cysteine cystine dopa essential amino acid gamma aminobutyric acid glutamic acid glutamine glycine hydroxyproline iodoamino acid ornithine proline creatine sarcosine serine thyronine tyramine tyrosine
Rhyming Words
cid acid scid picid arcid alcid mucid lucid ficid lycid coccid esocid odacid marcid muscid raucid chacid viscid caecid diacid
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