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oestrins

oestrins is the plural of oestrin.

Meaning of oestrin

Noun

oestrin (countable and uncountable, plural oestrins)

  1. (archaic) An oestrogen, specifically oestrone.
    • Encouraged by his friends Solly Zuckerman and J. B. S. Haldane, Bernal had obtained crystals of calciferol and the female sex hormone oestrin.1998, Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life

Questions about oestrins

What is oestrins the plural of?
Oestrins is the plural of oestrin.

Words near oestrins in the dictionary

  1. Oestreichs
  2. oestri
  3. oestrid
  4. oestrids
  5. oestrin
  6. oestrins
  7. oestriol
  8. oestriols
  9. oestro
  10. oestrogen
  11. oestrogenic

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