transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈker-ə-ˌtēn, ˈka-rə- ]
noun
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary, from Late Latin carota carrot
Date: 1861
: any of several orange or red crystalline hydrocarbon pigments (as C 40 H 56 ) that occur in the chromoplasts of plants and in the fatty tissues of plant-eating animals and are convertible to vitamin A — compare beta-carotene