Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

colicin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: col-icin
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a class of proteins, secreted by certain strains of bacteria, that kill but do not lyse other strains

Etymology

From French colicine, from coli- + -cine, with ending formed by analogy from antibiotics like auréomycine, streptomycine, with second element from myc- + -ine.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: colicine

Inflected Forms

colicins (plural)

Derived Forms

colicinogenic

Questions

What does colicin mean?: Any of a class of proteins, secreted by certain strains of bacteria, that kill but do not lyse other strains
Where does colicin come from?: It is traced to French.

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