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fenestrel

fenestrel noun: a synthetic, non-steroidal estrogen developed as a postcoital contraceptive in the 1960s but was marketed.

Noun

fenestrel (uncountable)

  1. A synthetic, non-steroidal estrogen developed as a postcoital contraceptive in the 1960s but was marketed.

Origin of fenestrel

From phen- + -estr- (“estrogen”).

Questions about fenestrel

What does fenestrel mean?
Fenestrel means a synthetic, non-steroidal estrogen developed as a postcoital contraceptive in the 1960s but was marketed.
What part of speech is fenestrel?
Fenestrel is a noun.

Words near fenestrel in the dictionary

  1. fenestrately
  2. fenestrates
  3. fenestrating
  4. fenestration
  5. fenestrations
  6. fenestrel
  7. fenestrid
  8. fenestrids
  9. fenestron
  10. fenestrons
  11. fenestrule

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