"stearin" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈstɪəɹɪn/ Forms: stearins [plural]
Etymology: From French stéarine, from Ancient Greek στέαρ (stéar, “fat”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|stéarine}} French stéarine, {{der|en|grc|στέαρ||fat}} Ancient Greek στέαρ (stéar, “fat”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} stearin (usually uncountable, plural stearins)
  1. Solid fat. Tags: uncountable, usually
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  2. (organic chemistry) A glyceride (especially the triglyceride) of stearic acid Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Organic compounds Translations (the triglyceride of stearic acid): estearina [feminine] (Catalan), 硬脂精 (ngaang⁶ zi¹ zing¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 硬脂精 (yìngzhījīng) (Chinese Mandarin), stéarine [feminine] (French), Stearin [neuter] (German), stearina [feminine] (Italian), ステアリン (sutearin) (Japanese), стеарин (stearin) (Kazakh), 스테아린 (seutearin) (Korean), стеарин (stearin) (Kyrgyz), stearin [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), stearin [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), stearyna [feminine] (Polish), stearină (Romanian), стеари́н (stearín) [masculine] (Russian), estearina [feminine] (Spanish), stearin [common-gender, neuter] (Swedish), стеари́н (stearýn) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: stearine Derived forms: monostearin, distearin, palm stearin, tristearin Related terms: olein

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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