Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA taxane, C₄₇H₅₁NO₁₄, used to treat cancer; Taxol.
From Latin taxus (“yew”) + -ol. Named by the researchers who isolated it from the bark of the Pacific yew in 1967, Monroe E. Wall and Mansukh C. Wani, from the scientific Latin term Taxus (a genus name).
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