Word.ws English Dictionary

phosphomycin

phosphomycin is the alternative form of fosfomycin.

Meaning of fosfomycin

Noun

fosfomycin (uncountable)

  1. A broad-spectrum antibiotic, 3-methyloxiran-2-ylphosphonic acid, obtained from certain Streptomyces bacteria.

Questions about phosphomycin

What is phosphomycin the alternative form of?
Phosphomycin is the alternative form of fosfomycin.

Words near phosphomycin in the dictionary

  1. phosphomutase
  2. phosphomutases
  3. phosphomutated
  4. phosphomutation
  5. phosphomutations
  6. phosphomycin
  7. phosphonamidite
  8. phosphonamidites
  9. phosphonatase
  10. phosphonatases
  11. phosphonate

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: phosphomycin (page history and authors); fosfomycin (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “phosphomycin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/phosphomycin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.