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hederagenin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hed-er-a-genin
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A triterpenoid originally extracted from Hedera helix, the common ivy.

Uncountable

Etymology

From Hedera, the genus of ivy; originally named hederic acid by the German professor L. Posselt, who was the first to extract the substance from ivy seeds and published his findings in 1849.

Usage

Questions

What does hederagenin mean?
A triterpenoid originally extracted from Hedera helix, the common ivy.
Where does hederagenin come from?
From Hedera, the genus of ivy; originally named hederic acid by the German professor L. Posselt, who was the first to extract the substance from ivy seeds and published his findings in 1849.

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