fatty acid

Noun

 * 1)  Any of a class of aliphatic carboxylic acids, of general formula CnH2n+1COOH, that occur combined with glycerol as animal or vegetable oils and fats. Only those with an even number of carbon atoms are normally found in natural fats.

Usage notes

 * 1) The above general formula applies to the saturated fatty acids. Remove 2 hydrogen atoms for an unsaturated fatty acid, and 2 hydrogen atoms for every double bond in a polyunsaturated fatty acid.

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:fatty acid

Related terms

 * - C2
 * - C4
 * - C6
 * - C8
 * - C10
 * - C12
 * - C14
 * - C16
 * - C18
 * - C20
 * , - C10 unsaturated
 * , - C12 unsaturated
 * ,, - C14 unsaturated
 * - C16 unsaturated
 * ,, - C18 unsaturated
 * , - C20 unsaturated
 * , - C22 unsaturated
 * - C24 unsaturated
 * - C18 trans-unsaturated
 * - C18 diunsaturated
 * - C18 polyunsaturated
 * - C20 polyunsaturated

Translations

 * Belarusian: тлу́стая кіслата́
 * Bulgarian: ма́стна киселина́
 * Catalan: àcid gras
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 脂肪酸
 * Hokkien: 脂肪酸
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: mastná kyselina
 * Danish: fedtsyre
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: fitisýra
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: λιπαρό οξύ
 * Hindi: वसीय अम्ल
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: aigéad sailleach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: ꦲꦱꦩ꧀ꦊꦩꦏ꧀
 * Kannada: ಕೊಬ್ಬಿನ ಆಮ್ಲ
 * Kazakh: майлы қышқыл
 * Khmer: អាស៊ីតខ្លាញ់
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: asîda çewrî
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: масна киселина
 * Maori: waikawa ngako
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fettsyre
 * Nynorsk: feittsyre
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ма̑сна̄ киселѝна
 * Roman: mȃsnā kiselìna
 * Spanish: ácido graso
 * Sundanese: ᮃᮞᮙ᮪ ᮜᮨᮙᮊ᮪
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: கொழுப்பு அமிலம்
 * Thai: กรดไขมัน
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: жи́рна кислота́
 * Welsh: asid brasterog