The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἔκδυσις“stripping”
- English todayecdysteroid
From ecdysis (“shedding, moulting”) (from Ancient Greek ἔκδυσις (ékdusis, “stripping”)) + steroid.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἔκδυσις all →
ecdysis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.