| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| bacteriocin |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bac·te·ri·o·cin |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b k-tîr  - -s n |
| NOUN: | An antibacterial substance, such as colicin, produced by a strain of certain bacteria and harmful to another strain within the same family. | | ETYMOLOGY: | bacterio– + (coli)cin.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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