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LINOLIC ACID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does linolic acid mean?
• LINOLIC ACID (noun)
The noun LINOLIC ACID has 1 sense:
1. a liquid polyunsaturated fatty acid abundant in plant fats and oils; a fatty acid essential for nutrition; used to make soap
Familiarity information: LINOLIC ACID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A liquid polyunsaturated fatty acid abundant in plant fats and oils; a fatty acid essential for nutrition; used to make soap
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
linoleic acid; linolic acid
Hypernyms ("linolic acid" is a kind of...):
polyunsaturated fatty acid (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)
Holonyms ("linolic acid" is a substance of...):
corn oil (oil from the germs of corn grains)
soyabean oil; soybean oil (oil from soya beans)
flaxseed oil; linseed oil (a drying oil extracted from flax seed and used in making such things as oil paints)
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