sex hormone

Questions about sex hormone

What does sex hormone mean?

sex hormone means "any hormone affecting the development and growth of sex organs".

What is another word for sex hormone?

Close synonyms include steroid hormone, steroid. 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 sex hormone a common word?

sex hormone 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.