Relating to or derived from carotin or carotene compounds.
Formed from carot- (carrot root) plus the chemical suffix -nic, indicating relationship to a chemical substance. Emerged in 19th-century biochemical literature.
Scientists invented 'caronic' to describe anything chemically related to carrot pigments, showing how languages adapt by adding suffixes to older words when describing new discoveries.
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