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echincandin

echincandin is the alternative form of echinocandin.

Meaning of echinocandin

Noun

echinocandin (plural echinocandins)

  1. Any of a class of antifungal drugs that inhibit the synthesis of glucan in the fungal cell wall.

Forms of echincandin

pluralechincandins

Questions about echincandin

What is echincandin the alternative form of?
Echincandin is the alternative form of echinocandin.

Words near echincandin in the dictionary

  1. echinasterids
  2. echinasteroside
  3. echinate
  4. echinated
  5. echinates
  6. echincandin
  7. echincandins
  8. echinenone
  9. echini
  10. echinid
  11. Echinidan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: echincandin (page history and authors); echinocandin (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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