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diosgenins

diosgenins is the plural of diosgenin.

Meaning of diosgenin

Noun

diosgenin (countable and uncountable, plural diosgenins)

  1. A steroid sapogenin, obtained from certain yams, that has estrogenic activity.
    • Obtaining adequate quantities of hormonal substances for research was impossible, however, until the early 1940s, when Russell E. Marker (1902–95) found that he could extract diosgenin from a wild yam growing in Mexico […]1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 547

Questions about diosgenins

What is diosgenins the plural of?
Diosgenins is the plural of diosgenin.

Words near diosgenins in the dictionary

  1. Dioscuri
  2. dioscuric
  3. diose
  4. dioses
  5. diosgenin
  6. diosgenins
  7. diosgenone
  8. Diosig
  9. diosmectite
  10. diosmetin
  11. diosmin

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