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carotenid

carotenid is the alternative form of carotenoid.

Meaning of carotenoid

Noun

carotenoid (plural carotenoids)

  1. Any of a class of yellow to red organic pigments including the carotenes and xanthophylls.

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Forms of carotenid

pluralcarotenids

Questions about carotenid

What is carotenid the alternative form of?
Carotenid is the alternative form of carotenoid.

Words near carotenid in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carotenid (page history and authors); carotenoid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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