Etymology

diosgenin

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Today it means: A steroid sapogenin, obtained from certain yams, that has estrogenic activity. Full definition →

translingual Dios(corea) ← German Diosgenin
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The story

  1. German · borrowed fromDiosgenin
  2. translingual · derived fromDios(corea)
  3. English todaydiosgenin

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

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