Usually means: Molecules encoding genetic information. DNA, RNA.
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  1. nucleic acid: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nucleic acid: Merriam-Webster
  3. nucleic acid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nucleic acid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nucleic acid: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nucleic acid: Vocabulary.com
  7. nucleic acid: Wordnik
  8. nucleic acid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. nucleic acid: Wiktionary
  10. nucleic acid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nucleic acid: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. nucleic acid: Dictionary.com
  13. nucleic acid: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Nucleic Acid, Nucleic acid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. nucleic acid: Rhymezone
  16. nucleic acid: FreeDictionary.org
  17. nucleic acid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. nucleic acid: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. nucleic acid: Legal dictionary

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  1. nucleic acid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. nucleic acid: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Acid, nucleic, Nucleic acid: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Nucleic acid: Glossary of Terms Used in Medicinal Chemistry
  6. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  10. nucleic acid: Medical dictionary
  11. Acid, nucleic, Nucleic acid: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Nucleic acid: Medicinal Chemistry
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  4. nucleic acid: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nucleic acid: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See nucleic_acids as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (nucleic acid)

noun:  (biochemistry, genetics) Any acidic, chainlike biological macromolecule consisting of multiple repeat units of phosphoric acid, sugar and purine and pyrimidine bases; they are involved in the preservation, replication and expression of hereditary information in every living cell

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