kanamycin

From (Streptomyces) kana(myceticus) +‎ -mycin (“antibiotic produced from a Streptomyces strain”). The term kanamyceticus may comes from From Japanese 金 (kana-, “metal, money”) +‎ Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs) +‎ Latin -icus.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˌkæn.əˈmaɪ.sɪn/

kanamycin (countable and uncountable, plural kanamycins)

1. (pharmacology) A broad-spectrum aminoglycoside antibiotic from a Japanese soil streptomyces (Streptomyces kanamyceticus), used to treat severe bacterial infections and tuberculosis.

• “kanamycin”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “kanamycin”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.