Usually means: Contains multiple double-bonded carbon atoms.
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  1. polyunsaturated: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. polyunsaturated: Merriam-Webster
  3. polyunsaturated: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. polyunsaturated: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. polyunsaturated: Collins English Dictionary
  6. polyunsaturated: Vocabulary.com
  7. Polyunsaturated, polyunsaturated: Wordnik
  8. polyunsaturated: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. polyunsaturated: Wiktionary
  10. polyunsaturated: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. polyunsaturated: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. polyunsaturated: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. polyunsaturated: Dictionary.com
  14. polyunsaturated: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. polyunsaturated: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Polyunsaturated: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. polyunsaturated: Rhymezone
  18. polyunsaturated: FreeDictionary.org
  19. polyunsaturated: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. polyunsaturated: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. polyunsaturated: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. polyunsaturated: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. polyunsaturated: Medical dictionary

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  1. polyunsaturated: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  (organic chemistry) Of or relating to long chain organic compounds that have multiple double bonds; polyunsaturated fatty acids are essential to human nutrition.
adjective:  (nutrition, of a fat or oil) Having a chemical structure that does not easily change into cholesterol (a substance containing a lot of fat thought to be an important cause of heart disease).

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