Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun aminoalkanoic_acid

1 sense of aminoalkanoic acid

Sense 1
amino acid, aminoalkanoic acid -- (organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group; "proteins are composed of various proportions of about 20 common amino acids")
       => organic compound -- (any compound of carbon and another element or a radical)