carotenol

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noun

A yellow pigment; an alcohol of carotene.

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Meanings

nouncarotenol (countable and uncountable, plural carotenols)

plural carotenols

  1. countableuncountableA yellow pigment; an alcohol of carotene.

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

    1945, Eugene Rabinowitch, Photosynthesis and Related Processes, volume 1, page 472
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    Luteol is by far the most abundant carotenol is leaves ^([sic]) other leaf xanthophylls include zeaxanthol, violaxanthol, cryptoxanthol, flavoxanthol, and neoxanthin.

    2004, Shubhrata R. Mishra, Photosynthesis in Plants, page 123

Origin

From carotene + -ol.

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