Carotene

Definitions: Carotene

Carotene

Noun

1. An orange isomer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon found in many plants; is converted into vitamin A in the liver.

2. Yellow or orange-red fat-soluble pigments in plants.

Specialty Definitions: Carotene

Domain	Definitions
Health	The general name for a group of pigments found in green, yellow, and leafy vegetables, and yellow fruits. The pigments are fat-soluble, unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbons functioning as provitamins and are converted to vitamin A through enzymatic processes in the intestinal wall. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Carotene

Synonyms: carotin (n), provitamin A (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Carotene

English words defined with "carotene": beta-carotene ♦ carotenemia, carrot ♦ golden algae ♦ retinol ♦ vitamin A1 ♦ xanthemia. (references)

Specialty definitions using "carotene": beta carotene. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Carotene" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Italian (carotene).

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Commercial Usage: Carotene

Domain	Title
Books	Edible Forest Foods of Tribals in South India: Carotene Content, Medicinal and Culinary Aspects (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Carotene

"Carotene" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Carotene" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	14	93,893

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Carotene

Expression using "carotene": beta carotene. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "carotene": b-carotene, beta-carotene.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carotene

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
beta carotene	271
antioxidant beta carotene disease e heart vitamin	35
carotene	29
action against alpha alpha beta by by carcinogenesis carcinogenesis carcinogenesis carotene carotene effectively in liver lung more mouse potent preventive promoting skin spontaneous stage suppressed than	21
beta carotene vitamin a	9
beta carotene natural	5
benefit beta carotene	3
beta carotene extraction	3
beta carotene extraction from oil palm	3
beta carotene food	3
b carotene	3
beta carotene smoking	3
alpha carotene	2
beta carotene source	2
carotene industrial synthesis	2
carotene gamma	2
beta carotene tanning	2
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Modern Translations: Carotene

Language		Translations for "carotene"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏الكرنوتيت معدن إشعاعي. (various references)

Bulgarian		каротин (carotin). (various references)

Chinese		胡萝卜� . (various references)

Danish		vitamin A (vitamin A, vitamine A), karotin (vitamin A). (various references)

Dutch		caroteen (vitamin A), vitamine A (vitamin A, vitamine A), karoteen (vitamin A). (various references)

Finnish		karoteeni (vitamin A). (various references)

French		carotène (carotin). (various references)

German		karotin (carotin, vitamin A), carotin (vitamin A). (various references)

Hungarian		karotin (carotin). (various references)

Italian		carotene (vitamin A). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		カレー饂飩 (calendar, calorie, can-can, carol, Carolina, college, college level, college paper, corolla, currency, current, current English, current price, current topics, kan ecology, kangaroo, Kansas, Udon cooked with curry topping). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		カロチン , カロテン . (various references)

Pig Latin		arotenecay

Portuguese		caroteno (vitamin A). (various references)

Russian		каротин (carotin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		karotin (carotin), karoten (carotin). (various references)

Spanish		caroteno (vitamin A). (various references)

Swedish		karotin (carotin). (various references)

Vietnamese		carotin (carotin). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Carotene

Derivations
	Words beginning with "carotene": carotenes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Carotene" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cadoxton, Caretena, Carntine, caroten, Carotenemia, carotenoid, cartene, cartone, cartoone, citoyenne, Pcarotene. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Carotene"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "carotene" (pronounced ke"rutē'n)
4	-u t ē' n	guillotine, nicotine.
3	-t ē' n	argentine, elephantine, Holstein, libertine, mangosteen, protein, quarantine.
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Anagrams: Carotene

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-n-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: acetone, centare, corneae, crenate, enactor, ocreate, reenact.
	-2 letters: atoner, canter, cantor, careen, carnet, carton, cenote, center, centra, centre, cerate, cetane, coatee, coater, contra, cornea, cornet, craton, create, ecarte, encore, entera, neater, nectar, ocreae, octane, ornate, recane, recant, recent, tanrec, tenace, tenrec, trance.
	-3 letters: acorn, actor, antre, arete, atone, caner, canoe, canto, caret, carte.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-n-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: carotenes, coeternal, tolerance.
	+2 letters: ancestored, antecessor, auctioneer, benefactor, coelentera, congregate, consecrate, contravene, covenanter, execration, interocean, recreation, tolerances.
	+3 letters: actinometer, antecessors, arborescent, archenteron, areocentric, atherogenic, auctioneers, baronetcies, benefactors, catercorner, celebration, centerboard, cerebration, cogenerator, coleopteran, concentrate, confederate, congregated, congregates, consecrated, consecrates, considerate, consternate, contravened, contravener, contravenes, contredanse, copartnered, cotoneaster, counterbade, counterpane, counterplea, covenanters, crenelation, decarbonate, deprecation, desecration, execrations, exorbitance, expectorant, intolerance, neuroactive, noncreative, nonreactive, plecopteran, recontacted, recreations, reeducation, reinoculate, teratogenic, undecorated.
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