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Linolenic acid Moderate

Linolenic acid has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a liquid polyunsaturated fatty acid that occurs in some plant oils; an essential fatty acid

2

An polyunsaturated fatty acid, having 18 carbon atoms and three double bonds, essential for human nutrition; it is found in linseed and other vegetable oils

See Also
linolenate linoleic vegetable trilinolenin linseed polyunsaturated fatty acid linolenic linolenoyl
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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
omega-6 fatty acid
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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