what does essential amino acid mean?
ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID as NOUN
- Meaning
- an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize
- must be supplied in the diet
Hypernyms(s) essential amino acid is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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