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curvaticin

Today it means: A particular bacteriocin produced by the bacterium Lactobacillus curvatus. Full definition →

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From curvatus + -cin. By surface analysis, bovis + curve + -ate + -i- + -cin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.