cycloserine

1. 1.

   an antibiotic that is especially active against the tubercle bacillus

   Broaderantibiotic

Other forms of cycloserine

plural

cycloserines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cycloserine

What does cycloserine mean?

cycloserine means "an antibiotic that is especially active against the tubercle bacillus".

How many syllables are in cycloserine?

cycloserine has 4 syllables: cy-clo-se-rine. The stress falls on "clo".

Is cycloserine a common word?

cycloserine 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.