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From Latin vacca (“cow”) + English -en (“carbon-carbon double bond”) + -ic.
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Today it means: Of or pertaining to vaccenic acid or its derivatives Full definition →
From Latin vacca (“cow”) + English -en (“carbon-carbon double bond”) + -ic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.