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"Carotenoid" Definition

noun

Any of a class of yellow to red pigments, including the carotenes and the xanthophylls.
Any of various usually yellow to red pigments (as ) found widely in plants and animals and characterized chemically by a long aliphatic polyene chain composed of eight isoprene units.

adjective

Of or relating to such a pigment.