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

1 sense of saturated fatty acid

Sense 1
saturated fatty acid -- (a fatty acid whose carbon chain cannot absorb any more hydrogen atoms; found chiefly in animal fats)
       => fatty acid -- (any of a class of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids that form part of a lipid molecule and can be derived from fat by hydrolysis; fatty acids are simple molecules built around a series of carbon atoms linked together in a chain of 12 to 22 carbon atoms)