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virginiamycin

virginiamycin noun: an antibiotic, used in agriculture and in the fuel ethanol industry to prevent microbial contamination.

Noun

virginiamycin (uncountable)

  1. An antibiotic, used in agriculture and in the fuel ethanol industry to prevent microbial contamination.

virginiamycin meaning in Tamil

virginiamycin in Tamil

வெர்ஜினியாமைசின் எதிருயிரி

Origin of virginiamycin

From translingual virginiae + -mycin (“antibiotic”).

Questions about virginiamycin

What does virginiamycin mean?
Virginiamycin means an antibiotic, used in agriculture and in the fuel ethanol industry to prevent microbial contamination.
What is virginiamycin in Tamil?
Virginiamycin in Tamil is வெர்ஜினியாமைசின் எதிருயிரி. See Virginiamycin meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is virginiamycin?
Virginiamycin is a noun.

Words near virginiamycin in the dictionary

  1. Virginia Tech
  2. Virginia Water
  3. Virginia wild rye
  4. Virginia wild ryes
  5. virginial
  6. virginiamycin
  7. Virginian
  8. Virginian creeper
  9. Virginian creepers
  10. Virginian winterberry
  11. Virginians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: virginiamycin (page history and authors); virginiamycin (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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