Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun omega-3

1 sense of omega-3

Sense 1
omega-3 fatty acid, omega-3 -- (a polyunsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has its first double valence bond three carbons from the beginning)
       => 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)