kanamycin
/ˌkæn.əˈmaɪ.sɪn/noun
kanamycin is a noun meaning “A broad-spectrum aminoglycoside antibiotic from a Japanese soil streptomyces (Streptomyces kanamyceticus), used to treat severe bacterial infections…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-A-N-A-M-Y-C-I-N, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kanamycin is kanamycins.
What does kanamycin mean?
noun
- 1
A broad-spectrum aminoglycoside antibiotic from a Japanese soil streptomyces (Streptomyces kanamyceticus), used to treat severe bacterial infections and tuberculosis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce kanamycin?
- /ˌkæn.əˈmaɪ.sɪn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of kanamycin
- kanamycins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is kanamycin?
Kanamycin appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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).
Kanamycin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | kanamicina |
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.
Where does kanamycin come from?
From (Streptomyces) kana(myceticus) + -mycin (“antibiotic produced from a Streptomyces strain”). The term kanamyceticus may comes from From Japanese 金 (kana-, “metal, money”) + Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs) + Latin -icus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).