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11 letters · 23 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun an antibiotic used as an anticancer drug
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.? Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́ς (oxŭ́s)bor. English oxy- English d(e)ox(y)- Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English -rubicin English doxorubicin From d(e)ox(y)- + -o- + -rubicin (“daunorubicin derivative”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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