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

1 sense of phenylalanine

Sense 1
phenylalanine -- (an essential amino acid found in proteins and needed for growth of children and for protein metabolism in children and adults; abundant in milk and eggs; it is normally converted to tyrosine in the human body)
       => essential amino acid -- (an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet)