linoleic acid

English Thesaurus

1. a liquid polyunsaturated fatty acid abundant in plant fats and oils; a fatty acid essential for nutrition; used to make soap (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	polyunsaturated fatty acid,
definition	:	an unsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has more than one double or triple valence bond per molecule; found chiefly in fish and corn and soybean oil and safflower oil (noun.substance)

substance meronym	:	corn oil,
definition	:	oil from the germs of corn grains (noun.food)

substance meronym	:	soyabean oil, soybean oil,
definition	:	oil from soya beans (noun.food)

substance meronym	:	flaxseed oil, linseed oil,
definition	:	a drying oil extracted from flax seed and used in making such things as oil paints (noun.substance)