English Explanatory Dictionary

hederagenin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A triterpenoid originally extracted from Hedera helix, the common ivy.

Word forms

hederagenin

Etymology

From Hedera, the genus of ivy; originally named hederic acid by the German professor L. Posselt, who was the first to extract the substance from ivy seeds and published his findings in 1849.

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