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9 letters · 18 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a complex of antibiotic substances obtained from a streptomyces bacterium; one form (trade name Mutamycin) shows promise as an anticancer drug
originEtymology 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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- commy 14
- comity 13
- myotic 13
- commit 12
- mincy 12
- tommy 12
- yomim 12
- mimic 11
- immy 11
- miotic 10
- cyton 10
- minty 10