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

1 sense of polyunsaturated fatty acid

Sense 1
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)
       => unsaturated fatty acid -- (a fatty acid whose carbon chain can absorb additional hydrogen atoms)