fatty acid

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Noun fatty acid has 1 sense

fatty acid - any of a class of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids that form part of a lipid molecule and can be derived from fat by hydrolysis; fatty acids are simple molecules built around a series of carbon atoms linked together in a chain of 12 to 22 carbon atoms
--₁ is a kind of carboxylic acid
--₁ has particulars: saturated fatty acid; unsaturated fatty acid; trans fatty acid

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