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Word: Cycloheximide
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
1950s; earliest use found in Mycologia. From cyclo- + hex- + imide
Definition:
A compound with antibiotic activity produced by the streptomycete bacterium Streptomyces griseus, now used mainly as an inhibitor of protein synthesis in experimental systems.
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