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diosgenin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
dios-genin
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A steroid sapogenin, obtained from certain yams, that has estrogenic activity.

Countable; Uncountable

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Etymology

From translingual Dios(corea) + genin, after German Diosgenin.

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Inflected Forms

diosgenins (plural)

Questions

What does diosgenin mean?
A steroid sapogenin, obtained from certain yams, that has estrogenic activity.
Where does diosgenin come from?
It is traced to German.

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