monounsaturaten.
/ˌmɒnəʊʌnˈsatʃᵿrət/, /ˌmɒnəʊʌnˈsatjᵿrət/, U.S. /ˌmɑnoʊˌənˈsætʃərət/ A monounsaturated fat or fatty acid.Although the word has a chemical meaning, it is chiefly found in contexts relating to food and nutrition.
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1970 N.Y. Times 20 Dec. iv. 7/3 The commission's diet calls for..keeping polyunsaturated fats..at less than 10 per cent of calories with the rest of dietary fats consisting of monounsaturates (peanut and olive oil).
1987 Biol. Psychiatry 22 1087 Linoleic acid..was below normal... A monounsaturate, oleic acid (18:1n-9) was elevated.
1989 Which? June 266/3 Olive oil, for instance, is very high in mono-unsaturates, and low in polyunsaturates.
1998 Zest Sept. 137/2 Several spreads high in saturated fat also wrongly use the claims ‘high in polyunsaturates’ or ‘high in monounsaturates’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1970- umbriferousness
- umbril
- umbrina
- umbriphilous
- umbro
- umbro-
- umbro-etruscan
- umbro-florentine
- umbro-latin
- umbro-oscan
- umbro-roman
- umbro-sabellian
- umbro-samnite
- umbro-siennese
- umbroetruscan
- umbroflorentine
- umbrolatin
- umbrooscan
- umbroroman
- umbrosabellian
- umbrosamnite
- umbrose
- umbrosiennese
- umbrosity
- umbrosous