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]

	

	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