| 单词 | lipoid |
| 释义 | lipoid (once / 251475 pages) n WORD FAMILY lipoid: lipoids USAGE EXAMPLESPatient SM, because of a rare condition called lipoid proteinosis, has holes where her amygdala would normally reside. New York Times(Dec 17, 2010) Patient SM, due to a rare condition called lipoid proteinosis has holes where her amygdala would normally reside. New York Times(Dec 16, 2010) Some writers, who object to the word "lipoid" as a group name, prefer to call these substances the "fat-like bodies." Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred, The Chemistry of Plant Life(2010) n an oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents; essential structural component of living cells (along with proteins and carbohydrates) Syn|Hypo|Hyper lipid, lipide fat a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides) triglycerideglyceride 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 oila slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water phospholipidany of various compounds composed of fatty acids and phosphoric acid and a nitrogenous base; an important constituent of membranes waxany of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water edible fatoily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue sassafras oiloil from root bark of sassafras trees; used in perfumery and as a disinfectant bayberry tallow, bayberry waxa fragrant green wax obtained from the wax myrtle and used in making candles calamus oilcarcinogenic oil from calamus root used as a perfume mustard oiloil obtained from mustard seeds and used in making soap colza oil, rape oil, rapeseed oiledible light yellow to brown oil from rapeseed used also as a lubricant or illuminant safflower oiloil from safflower seeds used as food as well as in medicines and paints hydnocarpus oiloil from seeds of trees of the genus Hydnocarpus especially Hydnocarpus wightiana (Hydnocarpus laurifolia) carnauba, carnauba waxhard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes babacu oil, babassu oilfatty oil from kernels of babassu nuts similar to coconut oil cohune fat, cohune oil, cohune-nut oilsemisolid fat from nuts of the cohune palm; used in cooking and soap making almond oil, expressed almond oil, sweet almond oilpale yellow fatty oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds hedeoma oil, pennyroyal oilaromatic oil from American pennyroyal hyssop oilused chiefly in liqueurs spike lavender oil, spike oilpale yellow essential oil obtained from spike lavender used in scenting soaps and cosmetics pennyroyal oiloil from European pennyroyal having an odor like mint; used chiefly in soaps croton oilviscid acrid brownish-yellow oil from the seeds of Croton tiglium having a violent cathartic action lecithina yellow phospholipid essential for the metabolism of fats; found in egg yolk and in many plant and animal cells; used commercially as an emulsifier fuel oil, heating oila petroleum product used for fuel animal oilany oil obtained from animal substances animal fatany fat obtained from animals camphor oiloil distilled from camphor resin candelilla waxa hard brown wax that occurs as a coating on candelilla shrubs ceresina white wax extracted from ozokerite cocoa buttera yellow-white fat from cocoa beans leaf fat, leaf lardfat lining the abdomen and kidneys in hogs which is used to make lard floor waxa preparation containing wax and used to polish and preserve the finish of floors fig wax, gondang waxa hard cream-colored wax obtained from a Javanese fig tree grease, lubricating oila thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery) essential oil, volatile oilan oil having the odor or flavor of the plant from which it comes; used in perfume and flavorings Japan tallow, Japan waxa yellow wax obtained from sumac berries; used in polishes mineral oila distillate of petroleum (especially one used medicinally as a laxative or stool softener) motor oiloil used to lubricate the moving parts of a motor montan waxa hard wax obtained from lignite medulla, myelin, myelinea white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers fatty oil, fixed oilnonvolatile animal or plant oil fusel oila mixture of amyl alcohols and propanol and butanol formed from distillation of fermented liquors stand oila thick oil comprised of linseed, tung, or soya oils which have been heated to over 300 C neroli oilan odoriferous yellow oil found in orange flowers and used in perfumery and as a flavoring tall oilan oil derived from wood pulp and used in making soaps or lubricants crude, crude oil, fossil oil, oil, petroleum, rock oila dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons pisang waxa wax obtained from the leaves of a plantain polyunsaturated fata class of fats having long carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated with hydrogen atoms; used in some margarines; supposedly associated with low blood cholesterol paraffin scale, scale waxpartly refined paraffin wax shale oiloil extracted from oil shale by heating ski waxwax used on the bottom of skis flaxseed oil, linseed oila drying oil extracted from flax seed and used in making such things as oil paints Chinese wood oil, tung oila yellow oil obtained from the seeds of the tung tree chaulmoogra oilan oil from chaulmoogra trees; used in treatment of skin diseases and leprosy beeswaxa yellow to brown wax secreted by honeybees to build honeycombs cerumen, earwaxa soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal paraffin, paraffin waxfrom crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings spermacetia white waxy substance from oil of the sperm whale vegetable waxa waxy substance obtained from plants (especially from the trunks of certain palms) lac wax, shellac waxa hard wax separated from shellac by its insolubility in alcohol lemon grass, lemongrass, lemongrass oilan aromatic oil that smells like lemon and is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumes and medicines macromolecule, supermolecule any very large complex molecule; found only in plants and animals |
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