carotene
Meaning of carotene
- A class of tetraterpene plant pigments; they vary in colour from yellow, through orange to red, this colour originating in a chain of alternating single and double bonds.
- Specifically, a number of isomers of tetraterpene hydrocarbons, C40H56, (especially beta-carotene), present in carrots etc, which are converted into vitamin A in the liver.
Information about carotene
- It is a name.
- The plural form of carotene is: carotenes.
- Languages in which carotene is used:
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Hyphenation of carotene
carotene
- It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
- carotene is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
carotene synonyms
Meaning provitamin A:
Anagrams of carotene
Words that rhyme with carotene
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