ESTROGEN

estrogen, oestrogen

(noun) a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

estrogen (countable and uncountable, plural estrogens)

(steroid hormone) Any of a group of steroids that are secreted by the ovaries and function as female sex hormones.

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RIGHT

(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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