fatty : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fatty	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fatty adj containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue" Synonym(s): fatty, fat Antonym(s): fat-free, fatless, nonfat n a rotund individual [syn: fatso, fatty, fat person, roly-poly, butterball] Antonym(s): scrag, skin and bones, thin person
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fatty \Fat"ty\, a. Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance. {Fatty acid} (Chem.), any one of the paraffin series of monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; -- so called because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic acids, occur in the natural fats, and are themselves fatlike substances. {Fatty clays}. See under {Clay}. {Fatty degeneration} (Med.), a diseased condition, in which the oil globules, naturally present in certain organs, are so multiplied as gradually to destroy and replace the efficient parts of these organs. {Fatty heart}, {Fatty liver}, etc. (Med.), a heart, liver, etc., which have been the subjects of fatty degeneration or infiltration. {Fatty infiltration} (Med.), a condition in which there is an excessive accumulation of fat in an organ, without destruction of any essential parts of the latter. {Fatty tumor} (Med.), a tumor consisting of fatty or adipose tissue; lipoma.