Carotenol

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A yellow pigment; an alcohol of carotene. countable, uncountable

    "[…] almost a dozen other carotenols are regularly found in green leaves."

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"[…] almost a dozen other carotenols are regularly found in green leaves."

Etymology

From carotene + -ol.

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