Term: leucine: a white crystalline amino acid occurring in proteins that is essential for nutrition; obtained by the hydrolysis of most dietary proteins
Broader: essential amino acid: an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet | Unrelated: wake-up call: a telephone call that you request be made a specific time in order to wake you up at that time (especially in hotels)
Broader: essential amino acid: an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet | Unrelated: quadrate: a cubelike object
Broader: essential amino acid: an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet | Unrelated: clapperboard: photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together
Broader: essential amino acid: an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet | Unrelated: coereba: type genus of the Coerebidae
Broader: essential amino acid: an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet | Unrelated: frigate bird: long-billed warm-water seabird with wide wingspan and forked tail
Broader: essential amino acid: an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet | Unrelated: harbor seal: small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere
Broader: essential amino acid: an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet | Unrelated: fastener: restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
Broader: essential amino acid: an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet | Unrelated: thermoreceptor: a sensory receptor that responds to heat and cold
Broader: essential amino acid: an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet | Unrelated: riser: a person who rises (especially from bed)
Broader: essential amino acid: an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet | Unrelated: flap: a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body