des Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
   stilboestrol; stilbestrol; diethylstilboestrol; diethylstilbestrol.
   
2. noun synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy
   stilbesterol; diethylstilbesterol.
   
3. noun a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
   Diamond State; Delaware; DE; First State.
   

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