lanosterol
noun
lanosterol is a noun meaning “A triterpenoid sterol found in lanolin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-A-N-O-S-T-E-R-O-L, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lanosterol is lanosterols.
What does lanosterol mean?
noun
- 1
A triterpenoid sterol found in lanolin
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of lanosterol
- lanosterols plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lanosterol?
Lanosterol appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th 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).
Where does lanosterol come from?
Blend of lanolin + sterol.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).