noun
- A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies.
- synonyms: Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE
- A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
- synonyms: diethylstilbestrol, diethylstilboestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol
- 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.
- synonyms: diethylstilbesterol, stilbesterol
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