Unscramble

c 3 h 4 o 1 l 1 e 1 s 1 t 1 e 1 r 1 o 1 l 1

11 letters · 16 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun an animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver; the most abundant steroid in animal tissues

originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- Proto-Hellenic *kʰolā́ Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ) Proto-Indo-European *ster-der. Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós) French cholestérine French cholestérolbor. English cholesterol Borrowed from French cholestérol.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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