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[syn: amino acid, aminoalkanoic acid]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
amino acid
n 1: organic compounds containing an amino group and a
carboxylic acid group; "proteins are composed of various
proportions of about 20 common amino acids" [syn: amino
acid, aminoalkanoic acid]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "amino acid":
alanine, albuminoid, arginine, chromoprotein, dipeptide, glycine,
glycoprotein, leucine, lipoprotein, lysine, methionine,
nucleoprotein, peptide, phenylalanine, phosphoprotein, proteid,
protein, protide, sarcosine, serine, threonine, valine