diosgenin

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A steroid sapogenin, obtained from certain yams, that has estrogenic activity. countable,uncountable
    — 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 […]

词形变化

diosgenins plural

词源

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