Definitions for colicins

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colicins col·i·cin

Spelling: [kol-uh-sin]

IPA: /ˈkɒl ə sɪn/

Colicins is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 145 anagrams from letters in colicins (cciilnos).

Definitions for colicins

noun

1. any bacteriocin produced by certain strains of Escherichia coli and having a lethal effect on strains other than the producing strain.

Origin of colicins

1945-50; French colicine, equivalent to coli- (see coliform) + -cine, probably extracted from names of antibiotics ending in -mycine