amino acid

Etymology
See and. Likely a, which is attested earlier.

Noun

 * 1)  Any organic compound containing both an amino and a carboxylic acid functional group.
 * 2)  Any of the twenty naturally occurring α-amino acids (having the amino, and carboxylic acid groups on the same carbon atom), and a variety of side chains, that combine, via peptide bonds, to form proteins.

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:amino acid
 * See also Thesaurus:amino acid
 * See also Thesaurus:amino acid

Translations

 * Arabic: حمض أميني
 * Catalan: aminoàcid
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 氨基酸
 * Hokkien: 胺基酸
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: amina acido
 * Faroese: aminosýra
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ამინომჟავა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: amínósýra
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: asem amino
 * Khmer: អាស៊ីតអាមីនេ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: asîda amînî
 * Latvian:
 * Maori: waikawa amino
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: aminosyre
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: aminokiselìna
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: asidi ya amino
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: aminoasit
 * Welsh: asid amino


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: amina acido
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ამინომჟავა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: asîda amînî
 * Latvian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: aminosyre
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian: aminokiselìna
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: aminoasit
 * Welsh: asid amino