progesterone

1. 1.

   a steroid hormone (trade name Lipo-Lutin) produced in the ovary; prepares and maintains the uterus for pregnancy

   SynonymsLipo-Lutin

   Broaderprogestin

   trade name

Other forms of progesterone

plural

progesterones·

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.

Questions about progesterone

What does progesterone mean?

progesterone means "a steroid hormone (trade name Lipo-Lutin) produced in the ovary; prepares and maintains the uterus for pregnancy".

How many syllables are in progesterone?

progesterone has 4 syllables: pro-ges-te-rone. The stress falls on "ges". In IPA it is /pɹoʊˈdʒɛstɚˌoʊn/.

What is another word for progesterone?

Close synonyms include Lipo-Lutin. 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 progesterone a common word?

progesterone is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with progesterone?

7 words rhyme with progesterone. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.