carotene

See also: carotène

English

β-Carotene represented by a 3-dimensional stick diagram.

Etymology

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English car(r)ot

English -ene

English carotene

From car(r)ot + -ene.

Pronunciation

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Noun

carotene (countable and uncountable, plural carotenes)

1. (organic chemistry) 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.
2. (organic chemistry) 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.

Synonyms

• E160 (when used as a food colouring)

Derived terms

• beta-carotene
• carotenemia
• carotenoderma
• carotenogenesis
• carotenogenic
• carotenol
• carotenosis
• zeacarotene
• β-carotene

Related terms

• carotenoid

Translations

class of plant pigments

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: кароти́н m (karotín)
• Catalan: carotè m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胡蘿蔔素 / 胡萝卜素 (zh) (húluóbosù)

• Dutch: caroteen (nl) n
• Esperanto: karoteno
• Estonian: karoteen, karotiin (obsolete)
• Finnish: karoteeni (fi)
• French: carotène (fr) m
• Galician: caroteno (gl) m
• German: Karotin (de) n, Carotin n
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: karotino (io)
• Italian: carotene (it) m
• Japanese: カロテン (ja) (karoten), カロチン (ja) (karochin)
• Kazakh: каротин (karotin)
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• Polish: karoten (pl) m
• Portuguese: caroteno (pt) m
• Romanian: caroten (ro) n
• Russian: кароти́н (ru) m (karotín)
• Spanish: caroteno (es) m
• Swahili: karotini
• Swedish: karoten (sv) c
• Turkish: karoten (tr)
• Vietnamese: carôtin

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.roˈtɛ.ne/
• Rhymes: -ɛne
• Hyphenation: ca‧ro‧tè‧ne

Noun

carotene m (plural caroteni)

1. (organic chemistry) carotene

Further reading

• carotene in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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