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English
Etymology
From oestr(us) + -in.
Pronunciation
Noun
oestrin (countable and uncountable, plural oestrins)
- (biochemistry, now rare) An oestrogen, specifically oestrone.
1998, Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life:Encouraged by his friends Solly Zuckerman and J. B. S. Haldane, Bernal had obtained crystals of calciferol and the female sex hormone oestrin.
Anagrams
- Orients, in store, instore, iterons, nitrose, noirest, norites, orients, sterino, stonier, tersion, tries on, triones