antimycotic agent

1. 1.

   any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi

   Synonymsantifungalantifungal agentfungicideantimycotic

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Questions about antimycotic agent

What does antimycotic agent mean?

antimycotic agent means "any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi".

What is another word for antimycotic agent?

Close synonyms include antifungal, antifungal agent, fungicide, antimycotic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is antimycotic agent a common word?

antimycotic agent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.