taxol · noun1
- Latin · derived fromtaxus“yew”
- English todaytaxol
From Latin taxus (“yew”) + -ol. Named by the researchers who isolated it from the bark of the Pacific yew in 1967, Monroe E. Wall and Mansukh C. Wani, from the scientific Latin term Taxus (a genus name).
Taxol · noun2
See taxol.
Words from the same roots
Latintaxus all →
taxanetaxifolin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.