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Any of several closely related fat-soluble vitamins that are essential for normal vision; retinol.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: antiophthalmic factor, axerophthol, A
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fat-soluble vitamin
Narrower terms: vitamin A1, retinol, vitamin A2, dehydroretinol
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
فِيتَامِين أَلِف
(fitamīn ʔalif)
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Catalan:
vitamina A
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Chinese Mandarin:
維生素A /维生素A
(wéishēngsù A)
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Czech:
vitamín A class m in
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Esperanto:
vitamino A
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Finnish:
A-vitamiini
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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French:
vitamine A
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Georgian:
A ვიტამინი
(A viṭamini)
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Georgian:
ვიტამინი A
(viṭamini A)
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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German:
Vitamin A
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Hungarian:
A-vitamin
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Icelandic:
A-vítamín
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Japanese:
ビタミンA
(bitamin A)
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Korean:
비타민 A
(bitamin A)
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Polish:
witamina A
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Polish:
akseroftol
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Portuguese:
vitamina A
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Romanian:
vitamina A
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Russian:
витами́н A
(vitamín A)
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Spanish:
vitamina A
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Swahili:
vitamini A
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Swedish:
A-vitamin
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
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Turkish:
A vitamini
— any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision
