English Explanatory Dictionary

polyphyllin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any of a class of saponins, isolated from the herb Paris polyphylla, that has anticancer activity

Word forms

polyphyllin polyphyllins

Etymology

From translingual polyphylla + -in.

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