androgen

Questions about androgen

What does androgen mean?

androgen means "male sex hormone that is produced in the testes and responsible for typical male sexual characteristics".

How many syllables are in androgen?

androgen has 3 syllables and divides as an-dro-gen under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for androgen?

Close synonyms include androgenic hormone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is androgen a common word?

androgen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.