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gonadotropic

adjective

gonadotropic is an adjective meaning “That stimulates, or promotes the growth of the gonads” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-O-N-A-D-O-T-R-O-P-I-C, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does gonadotropic mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    That stimulates, or promotes the growth of the gonads

    Near-synonym: gonadotrophic

  2. 2

    Of, pertaining to, or similar in function to gonadotropin

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is gonadotropic?

Gonadotropic appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).