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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
hexestrol is a noun meaning "estrogen compound used to treat menstrual irregularities and menopausal symptoms and to prevent pregnancy". It carries one recorded sense.
estrogen compound used to treat menstrual irregularities and menopausal symptoms and to prevent pregnancy
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hexestrol come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.