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carotenes

carotenes is the plural of carotene.

Meaning of carotene

Noun

carotene (countable and uncountable, plural carotenes)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Questions about carotenes

What is carotenes the plural of?
Carotenes is the plural of carotene.

Words near carotenes in the dictionary

  1. carotenals
  2. carotenase
  3. carotenases
  4. carotene
  5. carotenemia
  6. carotenes
  7. carotenid
  8. carotenids
  9. carotenoderma
  10. carotenodermia
  11. carotenodermias

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