Meanings
noundiosgenin (countable and uncountable, plural diosgenins)
plural diosgenins
- countableuncountablechemistryA steroid sapogenin, obtained from certain yams, that has estrogenic activity.
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 […]
1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 547
Origin
- GermanDiosgenin
- translingualDios(corea)
- Englishdiosgenin
From translingual Dios(corea) + genin, after German Diosgenin.
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APA
diosgenin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diosgenin
MLA
“diosgenin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diosgenin. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “diosgenin,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diosgenin.
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