orthosomycin
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of a group of antibiotics that have orthoester linkages with a carbohydrate.
Example Sentences
- "A new family of antibiotics, the orthosomycins, which contain in their structures one or more orthoester linkages associated with carbohydrate residues, is described. Examples of orthosomycin antibiotics include flambamycin, the everninomicins -B, -C, -D and -2, hygromycin B, the destomycins -A, -B and -C, the antibiotics SS-56-C, A-396-I and, more recently, the avilamycins -A and -C."