Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mitomycin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.55 in modern English

Syllables: mit-o-mycin
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a family of aziridine-containing natural products isolated from the filamentous bacterium Streptomyces lavendulae, one of which is used as a chemotherapeutic agent.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.? Ancient Greek μίτος (mítos)der. English mito- English -mycin English mitomycin From mito- (“nucleotoxic agent”) + -mycin (“antibiotic derived from Streptomyces”).

Usage

Inflected Forms

mitomycins (plural)

Synonyms

mutamycin

Questions

What does mitomycin mean?: Any of a family of aziridine-containing natural products isolated from the filamentous bacterium Streptomyces lavendulae, one of which is used as a chemotherapeutic agent.
Where does mitomycin come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.? Ancient Greek μίτος (mítos)der. English mito- English -mycin English mitomycin From mito- (“nucleotoxic agent”) + -mycin (“antibiotic derived from Streptomyces”).

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