teratogen

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English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

teratogen

Etymology

From terato- +‎ -gen.

Noun

teratogen (plural teratogens)

(teratology) Any agent or substance which can cause malformation of an embryo or birth defects.

Hypernyms

Related terms

Translations

agent or substance which can cause malformation

Catalan: teratogen (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 致畸物
Finnish: teratogeeni (fi)
French: tératogène (fr) m
Indonesian: teratogen
Japanese: 催奇形性物質 (さいきけいせいぶっしつ, saikikeiseibusshitsu)
Spanish: teratógeno m

See also

Anagrams

organette

Catalan

Etymology

From terato- +‎ -gen.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
IPA^(key): (Valencia)

Adjective

teratogen (feminine teratògena, masculine plural teratògens, feminine plural teratògenes)

teratogenic, causing the appearance of malformations.

Noun

teratogen m (plural teratògens)

(teratology) teratogen

Derived terms

teratogènic

Further reading

“teratogen” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“teratogen”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
“teratogen”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

teratogen

Etymology

Internationalism.

Pronunciation

(Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /teraˈtoɡɛn/
Rhymes: -oɡɛn
Syllabification: te‧ra‧to‧gen

Noun

teratogen (plural teratogen-teratogen)

(teratology) teratogen

Related terms

Further reading

“teratogen” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tératogène.

Adjective

teratogen m or n (feminine singular teratogenă, masculine plural teratogeni, feminine and neuter plural teratogene)

teratogenic

Declension

Declension of *teratogen*
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
		singular				plural
nominative- accusative	indefinite	teratogen		teratogenă		teratogeni	teratogene
nominative- accusative	definite	teratogenul		teratogena		teratogenii	teratogenele
genitive- dative	indefinite	teratogen		teratogene		teratogeni	teratogene
genitive- dative	definite	teratogenului		teratogenei		teratogenilor	teratogenelor

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English teratogen.

Adjective

teratogen (feminine singular teratogen, plural teratogen, not comparable)

teratogen

Mutation

Mutated forms of *teratogen*
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
teratogen	deratogen	nheratogen	theratogen

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Mutation

Delyth Prys, J.P.M. Jones, Owain Davies, Gruffudd Prys (2006) Y Termiadur: termau wedi'u safoni; standardised terminology‎ (in Welsh), Cardiff: Awdurdod cymwysterau, cwricwlwm ac asesu Cymru (Qualifications curriculum & assessment authority for Wales), →ISBN

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