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colicins

colicins is the plural of colicin.

Meaning of colicin

Noun

colicin (plural colicins)

  1. Any of a class of proteins, secreted by certain strains of bacteria, that kill but do not lyse other strains

Questions about colicins

What is colicins the plural of?
Colicins is the plural of colicin.

Words near colicins in the dictionary

  1. colicine
  2. colicines
  3. colicinogenic
  4. colicinogenicity
  5. colicinogeny
  6. colicins
  7. colick
  8. colicky
  9. colicroot
  10. colicroots
  11. colics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colicins (page history and authors); colicin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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