- amino acid as a noun:
- 1
amino acid
noun
1 amino acid
Organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group:
— Proteins are composed of various proportions of about 20 common amino acids.
synonym: aminoalkanoic acid.
Dutch: aminozuur
Polish: aminokwas
Moby thesaurus: alanine, albuminoid, arginine, chromoprotein, dipeptide, glycine, glycoprotein, leucine, lipoprotein, lysine, methionine, nucleoprotein, peptide, phenylalanine, phosphoprotein, proteid, protein, protide, sarcosine, serine ... show more.
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