vitamin b6

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   a B vitamin that is essential for metabolism of amino acids and starch

   Synonymspyridoxinepyridoxalpyridoxamineadermin

   BroaderB-complex vitamin

Questions about vitamin b6

What does vitamin b6 mean?

vitamin b6 means "a B vitamin that is essential for metabolism of amino acids and starch".

What is another word for vitamin b6?

Close synonyms include pyridoxine, pyridoxal, pyridoxamine, adermin. 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 vitamin b6 a common word?

vitamin b6 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.