carboxylic acid vs fatty acid

fatty acid vs carboxylic acid

carboxylic acid and fatty acid both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
carboxylic acid	Yes	No	No	No
fatty acid	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fatty acid is a hyponym of carboxylic acid; that is, fatty acid is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than carboxylic acid:

carboxylic acid: an organic acid characterized by one or more carboxyl groups
fatty acid: any of a class of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids that form part of a lipid molecule and can be derived from fat by hydrolysis; fatty acids are simple molecules built around a series of carbon atoms linked together in a chain of 12 to 22 carbon atoms

Other hyponyms of carboxylic acid include acetic acid, ethanoic acid, adipic acid, hexanedioic acid, mucic acid, octanedioic acid, suberic acid, succinic acid, saccharic acid, decanedioic acid, sebacic acid, sorbic acid, pentanoic acid, valeric acid, benzoic acid, propanoic acid, propionic acid, lactic acid, acrylic acid, propenoic acid, dicarboxylic acid.

carboxylic acid (noun)	fatty acid (noun)
an organic acid characterized by one or more carboxyl groups	any of a class of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids that form part of a lipid molecule and can be derived from fat by hydrolysis; fatty acids are simple molecules built around a series of carbon atoms linked together in a chain of 12 to 22 carbon atoms

Difference between carboxylic acid and fatty acid

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