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carotinoid

carotinoid is the dated 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 carotinoid

pluralcarotinoids

Origin of carotinoid

Compare carotin.

Questions about carotinoid

What is carotinoid the dated form of?
Carotinoid is the dated form of carotenoid.

Words near carotinoid in the dictionary

  1. carotidial
  2. carotids
  3. carotidynia
  4. carotin
  5. carotinaemia
  6. carotinoid
  7. carotinoids
  8. carotins
  9. carotodynia
  10. carotol
  11. carotte

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carotinoid (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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