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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
avermectin /ˌeɪvəˈmɛktɪn/

▶noun Medicine any of a group of macrocyclic compounds isolated from a strain of bacteria, used to destroy parasitic worms.

– origin 1970s: from mod. L. (Streptomyces) averm(itilis), the source bacterium, + ect- + -in1.

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