amino acid

from 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}]

from 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

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