carotenes
Meaning of carotenes
noun
- 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.
- 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.
Information about carotenes
- It is a name.
- The singular form of carotenes is: carotene.
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Hyphenation of carotenes
carotenes
- It consists of 1 syllables and 9 chars.
- carotenes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Anagrams of carotenes
Words that rhyme with carotenes
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