CAROTENOID


Meaning of CAROTENOID in English

also carotinoid noun Date: 1911 any of various usually yellow to red pigments (as carotenes) found widely in plants and animals and characterized chemically by a long aliphatic polyene chain composed of eight isoprene units, ~ adjective

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