How To Use genus Dioscorea In A Sentence
- Marker had published various studies on diosgenin, a saponin isolated from a Mexican yam species of the genus Dioscorea, and had discovered how to synthesize the human hormone testosterone and progesterone from diosgenin. Did You Know? Birth control pills come from Mexican yams
- Any of several Mexican plants of the genus Dioscorea having a large, inedible root that yields an extract used as a raw material for synthetic steroid hormones.
- A yam belongs to the genus dioscorea while a sweet potato belongs to the genus ipomoea. I Yam What I Yam...