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

1 sense of aspartic acid

Sense 1
aspartic acid -- (a crystalline amino acid found in proteins and occurring naturally in sugar beets and sugar cane)
       => 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")