-mycin


  1. a combining form used in the names of antibiotics, usually fungal derivatives: neomycin.

Origin of -mycin

1
Perhaps originally in actinomycin; see myc-, -in2

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British Dictionary definitions for -mycin

-mycin

n combining form
  1. indicating an antibiotic compound derived from a fungus: streptomycin

Origin of -mycin

1
from Greek mukēs fungus + -in

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