OMEGA-6

 Dictionary entry overview: What does omega-6 mean? 

• OMEGA-6 (noun)
  The noun OMEGA-6 has 1 sense:

1. a polyunsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has its first double valence bond six carbons from the beginning

  Familiarity information: OMEGA-6 used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OMEGA-6 (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A polyunsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has its first double valence bond six carbons from the beginning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

omega-6; omega-6 fatty acid

Hypernyms ("omega-6" is a kind of...):

polyunsaturated fatty acid (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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "omega-6"):

linolenic acid (a liquid polyunsaturated fatty acid that occurs in some plant oils; an essential fatty acid)

 Context examples 

A slightly altered form of linoleic acid, which is an omega-6 fatty acid important to human health.

(Conjugated Linoleic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

A convention for categorizing the physiological properties of a fatty acid by indicating the location of its double bond as counted from the terminal methyl carbon (designated as x or omega) (e.g., omega-6 fatty acid).

(n-x Nomenclature, NCI Thesaurus)