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Polyunsaturated fatty acid Common

Origin: Greek prefix poly-

Polyunsaturated fatty acid has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

an unsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has more than one double or triple valence bond per molecule; found chiefly in fish and corn and soybean oil and safflower oil

2

a fatty acid, such as arachidonic acid, that contains two or more carbon to carbon double bonds

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
unsaturated fatty acid
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
omega-3 fatty acid omega-6 fatty acid linoleic 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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