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Meaning of diosgenin | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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

countable, uncountable

Examples

“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 […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

diosgenone Diosig diosmectite diosmetin diosmin diosmium

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