amino acid
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organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group
proteins are composed of various proportions of about 20 common amino acids
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | substance holonym | Parts & wholes | protein |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | organic compound |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | alanine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | asparagine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | aspartic acid |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | canavanine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | citrulline |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | cysteine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | cystine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | dopa |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | essential amino acid |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | gamma aminobutyric acid |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | glutamic acid |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | glutamine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | glycine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | hydroxyproline |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | iodoamino acid |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | ornithine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | proline |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | creatine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sarcosine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | serine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | thyronine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | tyramine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | tyrosine |