Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

aureobasidin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: au-re-oba-sidin
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a family of cyclic depsipeptide antifungal antibiotics isolated from the fungus Aureobasidium pullulans

Example Sentences

"PHS sensitivity of all our mutants however was normal (Fig F, panel B in S1 File ), as was sensitivity to aureobasidin A, an inhibitor of IPC synthase (Fig F, panel C in S1 File )."

Etymology

Aureobasidium + -in

Word Breakdown

Suffix: in

Inflected Forms

aureobasidins (plural)

Questions

What does aureobasidin mean?: Any of a family of cyclic depsipeptide antifungal antibiotics isolated from the fungus Aureobasidium pullulans
Where does aureobasidin come from?: Aureobasidium + -in

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