natamycin
noun
natamycin is a noun meaning “An antifungal drug from Streptomyces natalensis, used to treat ophthalmic infections, and as a food preservative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-T-A-M-Y-C-I-N, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does natamycin mean?
noun
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An antifungal drug from Streptomyces natalensis, used to treat ophthalmic infections, and as a food preservative.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is natamycin?
Natamycin appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th 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).
Where does natamycin come from?
From Translingual nata(lensis) + English -mycin (“antibiotic”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).