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

1 sense of linoleic acid

Sense 1
linoleic acid, linolic acid -- (a liquid polyunsaturated fatty acid abundant in plant fats and oils; a fatty acid essential for nutrition; used to make soap)
       => 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)