Provitamin

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any biologically inactive compound that may be converted into a vitamin within an animal organism
  2. 2
    vitamin precursor; a substance that is converted into a vitamin in animal tissues wordnet

Etymology

From pro- (“forward, facing, favouring, toward”) + vitamin.

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