bleomycin
noun
bleomycin is a noun meaning “Any of a family of antineoplastic drug obtained from Streptomyces verticillus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-L-E-O-M-Y-C-I-N, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of bleomycin is bleomycins.
What does bleomycin mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a family of antineoplastic drug obtained from Streptomyces verticillus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of bleomycin
- bleomycins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is bleomycin?
Bleomycin appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th 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).
How do you abbreviate bleomycin?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of bleomycin: BLM.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does bleomycin come from?
From [Term?] + -mycin (“antibiotic derived from Streptomyces”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).