Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

actinomycin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.18 in modern English

Syllables: acti-no-mycin
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a class of toxic polypeptide antibiotics found in soil bacteria of genus Streptomyces.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

actinomycins (plural)

Derived Forms

cactinomycin dactinomycin

Questions

What does actinomycin mean?: Any of a class of toxic polypeptide antibiotics found in soil bacteria of genus Streptomyces.

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