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The name ‘ecdysteroid’ refers to the insect moulting and sex hormones which include ecdysone and its homologues such as 20-hydroxyecdysone.
Word origin
From ecdysis (“shedding, moulting”) (from Ancient Greek ἔκδυσις (ékdusis, “stripping”)) + steroid.
Used in a sentence
“The ecdysteroid group includes more than 250 polyhydroxysterols that occur in plants and animals, with 20-hydroxyecdysone (20-OH-E) being the physiologically active moulting hormone in most insects (Lafont 2000).”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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