Carotenoid

Definition: Carotenoid

Carotenoid

Noun

1. Any of a class of highly unsaturated yellow to red pigments occurring in plants and animals.

"Carotenoid" is a common misspelling or typo for: careened, carotene, corticoid.

Crosswords: Carotenoid

English words defined with "carotenoid": lutein, lycopene ♦ xanthophyl, xanthophyll ♦ zeaxanthin. (references)

Specialty definitions using "carotenoid": 3,4,3',4'-tetradehydrolycopene ♦ Algae, Brown. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Carotenoid Chemistry and Biochemistry (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Carotenoid News (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Carotenoid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Carotenoid" is used about 2 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	2	245,945

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.

Language		Translations for "carotenoid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		caroténoïde astaxanthine synthétisé (synthetized carotenoid astaxanthin). (various references)

German		synthetisiertes Carotinoid-Astaxanthin (synthetized carotenoid astaxanthin). (various references)

Italian		carotenoide astaxantina sintetizzata (synthetized carotenoid astaxanthin). (various references)

Pig Latin		arotenoidcay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "carotenoid": carotenoids. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: coordinate, decoration.
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-n-o-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: cartooned, coronated, creodonta, redaction.
	-2 letters: acrodont, anoretic, arointed, cartoned, catenoid, centroid, ceratoid, coeditor, coronate, creation, creodont, dicentra, doctrine, ordinate, rationed, ratooned, reaction, tandoori, tornadic.
	-3 letters: aconite, aneroid, antired, cairned, cardoon, carotid, carotin, cartoon, ceratin, certain, codeina, cointer, coontie, coranto, cordate, cordite, coronae, coronet, creatin, crooned, ctenoid, deontic, detrain, diatron, donator, enactor, erotica, noticed.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-n-o-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: carotenoids, coordinated, coordinates, decorations, recordation.
	+2 letters: coordinately, coordinative, incorporated, recordations, redecoration.
	+3 letters: confederation, consideration, decarbonation, decortication, nondemocratic, overcautioned, overeducation, reconsolidate, redecorations, uncoordinated.
	+4 letters: adrenocortical, confederations, conquistadores, considerations, containerboard, coordinateness, decarbonations, dechlorination, decolorization, deconsecration, decontaminator, decortications, dichloroethane, nondirectional, nondoctrinaire, nonradioactive, overdecorating, overdecoration, overeducations, overmedication, prognosticated, recodification, recommendation, reconsolidated, reconsolidates, reincorporated, serodiagnostic, trichomonacide, trisoctahedron, unincorporated.
	+5 letters: codetermination, containerboards, contradictories, decarboxylation, dechlorinations, decolorizations, deconcentration, deconsecrations, decontaminators, democratization, dichloroethanes, echinodermatous, inconsideration, omnidirectional, overdecorations, overmedications, premodification, radioprotection, recodifications, recommendations, reconsideration, reconsolidating, trichomonacides, trisoctahedrons.
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