antimycin
noun
antimycin is a noun meaning “Any of several lactone antibiotics, some of which are used for controlling fungi in fish farms” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-M-Y-C-I-N, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of antimycin is antimycins.
What does antimycin mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several lactone antibiotics, some of which are used for controlling fungi in fish farms
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antimycin
- antimycins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antimycin?
Antimycin appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Antimycin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any of several lactone antibiotics:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | antimicina |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.