diosgenin

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Definition of diosgenin

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noun

(countable, uncountable)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 […]”

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

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