carotene

Other forms of carotene

plural

carotenes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about carotene

What does carotene mean?

carotene means "an orange isomer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon found in many plants; is converted into vitamin A in the liver". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carotene?

carotene has 3 syllables: car-o-tene. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˈkɛɹəˌtin/.

What is another word for carotene?

Close synonyms include provitamin A, carotin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carotene a common word?

carotene is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with carotene?

24 words rhyme with carotene. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.