fatty acid

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• February 27. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  fatty acid — noun — english

  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