CAPRYLIC ACID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does caprylic acid mean? 

• CAPRYLIC ACID (noun)
  The noun CAPRYLIC ACID has 1 sense:

1. a fatty acid having a rancid taste; found in butter and other fats and oils

  Familiarity information: CAPRYLIC ACID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPRYLIC ACID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fatty acid having a rancid taste; found in butter and other fats and oils

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("caprylic 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)

 Context examples 

However, the coconut oil-derived free fatty acid mixture—lauric acid, capric acid and caprylic acid as well as their corresponding methyl esters—provides strong repellency against blood-sucking insects.

(Coconut Oil Compounds Repel Insects Better than DEET, U.S. Department of Agriculture)