ergosterol
Meaning of ergosterol
noun
a compound present in ergot and many other fungi. A steroid alcohol, it is converted to vitamin D2 when irradiated with ultraviolet light.
early 20th century: from ergot, on the pattern of cholesterol .
Information about ergosterol
- It is a name.
- The plural form of ergosterol is: ergosterols.
- Languages in which ergosterol is used:
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GalicianHyphenation of ergosterol
er-gos-terol
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- ergosterol is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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