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nojirimycin

nojirimycin noun: an antibiotic, produced by some strains of Streptomyces, that inhibits glucosidases.

Noun

nojirimycin (countable and uncountable, plural nojirimycins)

  1. An antibiotic, produced by some strains of Streptomyces, that inhibits glucosidases.

Forms of nojirimycin

pluralnojirimycins

Origin of nojirimycin

From Japanese 野尻 (Nojiri) + -mycin, first produced by a species of Streptomyces actinobacterium isolated from soil in Lake Nojiri in Japan.

Words formed from nojirimycin

Questions about nojirimycin

What does nojirimycin mean?
Nojirimycin means an antibiotic, produced by some strains of Streptomyces, that inhibits glucosidases.
What part of speech is nojirimycin?
Nojirimycin is a noun.
What is the plural of nojirimycin?
The plural of nojirimycin is nojirimycins.

Words near nojirimycin in the dictionary

  1. noisy scrubbird
  2. noisy scrubbirds
  3. Noisy-le-Sec
  4. noit
  5. noits
  6. nojirimycin
  7. nojirimycins
  8. nojito
  9. nojitos
  10. Nojorid
  11. NOK

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