aureomycin etymology

English word aureomycin comes from English -mycin, Translingual aureofaciens

Detailed word origin of aureomycin

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
-mycin English (eng) (biochemistry) Applied to aminoglycosides derived from bacteria of the genus Micromonospora.
aureofaciens Translingual (mul)
aureomycin English (eng) (medicine) The drug chlortetracycline, obtained from Streptomyces aureofaciens bacteria.

Words with the same origin as aureomycin

Descendants of -mycin
aminomycin annamycin ansamycin anthramycin azaerythromycin bambermycin bottromycin erythromycin humidimycin hygromycin kasugamycin leucomycin lincomycin lucentamycin oligomycin oxoerythromycin platensimycin sparsomycin streptomycin syringomycin virginiamycin