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fucoxanthine

fucoxanthine is the archaic form of fucoxanthin.

Meaning of fucoxanthin

Noun

fucoxanthin (countable and uncountable, plural fucoxanthins)

  1. A carotenoid pigment found in the chloroplasts of brown algae.

Forms of fucoxanthine

pluralfucoxanthines

Questions about fucoxanthine

What is fucoxanthine the archaic form of?
Fucoxanthine is the archaic form of fucoxanthin.

Words near fucoxanthine in the dictionary

  1. fucosyltransferase
  2. fucosyltransferases
  3. fucosynthase
  4. fucosynthases
  5. fucoxanthin
  6. fucoxanthine
  7. fucoxanthinol
  8. fucoxanthins
  9. fuctuplets
  10. fuculokinase
  11. fuculokinases

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