Definitions for diosgenin

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diosgenin di·os·gen·in

Spelling: [dahy-oz-jen-in, dahy-oz-juh-nin]

IPA: /ˌdaɪ ɒzˈdʒɛn ɪn, daɪˈɒz dʒə nɪn/

Diosgenin is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 270 anagrams from letters in diosgenin (degiinnos).

Definitions for diosgenin

noun

1. a crystalline compound, C 27 H 42 O 3 , the aglycone of dioscin: used in the synthesis of steroidal hormones, as of progesterone.

Origin of diosgenin

German Diosgenin (1936), equivalent to New Latin Dios(corea) the yam genus from which it was first extracted, irregular after Dioscorides 1st-century a.d. Greek physician + German -genin; see