English Explanatory Dictionary

-cin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. bacteriocin
  2. Antibiotic substance.

Word forms

-cin

Etymology

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

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