ractopamine
noun
ractopamine is a noun meaning “A drug used as a feed additive to promote leanness in pigs raised for their meat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-C-T-O-P-A-M-I-N-E, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does ractopamine mean?
noun
- 1
A drug used as a feed additive to promote leanness in pigs raised for their meat.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ractopamine?
Ractopamine appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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).
Ractopamine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense feed additive:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ractopamine |
| German | Ractopamin |
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 ractopamine come from?
From [Term?] + -opamine (“dopaminergic agent, dopamine derivative”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).