carotene

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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.

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carotene carotenes

From car(r)ot + -ene.

E160

carotenoid

beta-carotene carotenemia carotenoderma carotenogenesis carotenogenic carotenol carotenosis zeacarotene β-carotene

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