what does triglyceride mean?
TRIGLYCERIDE as NOUN
- Meaning
- glyceride occurring naturally in animal and vegetable tissues
- it consists of three individual fatty acids bound together in a single large molecule
- an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body
Hypernyms(s) triglyceride is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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