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Linolenic Acid

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Noun

1. linolenic acid

a liquid polyunsaturated fatty acid that occurs in some plant oils; an essential fatty acid

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Linolenic Acid

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colourless unsaturated essential fatty acid
noun
a colourless unsaturated essential fatty acid found in drying oils, such as linseed oil, and used in making paints and synthetic resins; 9,12,15-octadecatrienoic acid. Formula: C18H30O2
. Also called: alpha-linolenic acid

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Linolenic Acid

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an unsaturated fatty acid, C17H29COOH, found as a glyceryl ester in fats and oils: used in drying oils, varnishes, resins, paints, etc. and considered essential in animal diets

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Linolenic Acid

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n.
An unsaturated fatty acid, C18H30O2, considered essential to the human diet. It is an important component of natural drying oils.

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