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Essential amino acid

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Noun
  1. 1
    One of the nine naturally occurring amino acids that the human body cannot synthesize, and so must be provided by dietary protein.
  2. 2
    an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet wordnet

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