fucoxanthin
noun
fucoxanthin is a noun meaning “A carotenoid pigment found in the chloroplasts of brown algae” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-C-O-X-A-N-T-H-I-N, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fucoxanthin is fucoxanthins.
What does fucoxanthin mean?
noun
- 1
A carotenoid pigment found in the chloroplasts of brown algae.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fucoxanthin
- fucoxanthins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fucoxanthin?
Fucoxanthin appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fucoxanthin come from?
From Latin fūcus (from Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos, “seaweed”)) + ξανθός (xanthós, “yellow”) + -in.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).