Carotene

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  • noun. An orange-yellow to red crystalline pigment, C40H56, found in animal tissue and certain plants, such as carrots and squash. It exists in several isomeric forms and is converted to vitamin A in the liver.
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  • 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.
  • noun. 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.
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  • noun. an orange isomer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon found in many plants; is converted into vitamin A in the liver
  • noun. yellow or orange-red fat-soluble pigments in plants
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    "They therefore proposed that carotene is a provitamin, an immediate precursor to"
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    carotenoid  
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