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nojirimycin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
no-jir-imycin
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An antibiotic, produced by some strains of Streptomyces, that inhibits glucosidases.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Japanese 野尻 (Nojiri) + -mycin, first produced by a species of Streptomyces actinobacterium isolated from soil in Lake Nojiri in Japan.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

nojirimycins (plural)

Derived Forms

deoxynojirimycin galactonojirimycin

Questions

What does nojirimycin mean?
An antibiotic, produced by some strains of Streptomyces, that inhibits glucosidases.
Where does nojirimycin come from?
From Japanese 野尻 (Nojiri) + -mycin, first produced by a species of Streptomyces actinobacterium isolated from soil in Lake Nojiri in Japan.

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