noun, masculine/aminoˈaθido/plural: aminoácidos
amino acid
“2009, Purves, David Sadava, Vida, Ed. Médica Panamericana →ISBN, page 264” — Genetic code is not ambiguous: a given amino acid may be encoded by more than one codon, but a codon may encode only one amino acid.
Related: aminoacídico, aminoácido esencial
Borrowed from English amino acid.