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adj
Of or relating to long chain organic compounds that have multiple double bonds; polyunsaturated fatty acids are essential to human nutrition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
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adj
Having a chemical structure that does not easily change into cholesterol (a substance containing a lot of fat thought to be an important cause of heart disease).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Qualifier: nutrition
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adjective satellite
(of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) having many unsaturated bonds
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh1- Proto-Indo-European *polh1ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English un- English saturated English unsaturated English polyunsaturated From poly- + unsaturated.
Across languages
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