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BUTANOIC ACID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does butanoic acid mean?
• BUTANOIC ACID (noun)
The noun BUTANOIC ACID has 1 sense:
1. an unpleasant smelling fatty acid found especially in butter
Familiarity information: BUTANOIC ACID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An unpleasant smelling fatty acid found especially in butter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
butanoic acid; butyric acid
Hypernyms ("butanoic acid" is a kind of...):
saturated fatty acid (a fatty acid whose carbon chain cannot absorb any more hydrogen atoms; found chiefly in animal fats)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "butanoic acid"):
hydroxybutyric acid; oxybutyric acid (hydroxy derivative of butyric acid)
Context examples
A synthetic chlorophenyl-butanoic acid derivative used to treat spasms due to spinal cord damage and multiple sclerosis, muscle-relaxing Baclofen acts as a gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) agonist specific for GABA-B receptors.
(Baclofen, NCI Thesaurus)
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