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vitamin K

vitamin K noun: any of several related fat-soluble vitamins, found in leafy green vegetables, essential for blood clotting.

Noun

vitamin K (uncountable)

  1. Any of several related fat-soluble vitamins, found in leafy green vegetables, essential for blood clotting.
  2. (slang) The drug ketamine.

vitamin K meaning in Bengali

vitamin K in Bengali

কেটামিন নামক মাদক

Origin of vitamin K

Named similarly to the other vitamins, that are named after their order of discovery. This one was assigned its "K" from Danish koagulation by the Danish researcher Henrik Dam. The sense that is a slang alias for ketamine is because of the initial letter of that drug's name, as also with the slang sense of Special K.

Words formed from vitamin K

Questions about vitamin K

What does vitamin K mean?
Vitamin K means any of several related fat-soluble vitamins, found in leafy green vegetables, essential for blood clotting.
What is vitamin K in Bengali?
Vitamin K in Bengali is কেটামিন নামক মাদক. See Vitamin K meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is vitamin K?
Vitamin K is a noun.

Words near vitamin K in the dictionary

  1. vitamin F
  2. vitamin G
  3. vitamin H
  4. vitamin I
  5. vitamin J
  6. vitamin K
  7. vitamin K1
  8. vitamin K2
  9. vitamin M
  10. vitamin O
  11. vitamin P

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vitamin K (page history and authors); vitamin K (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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