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 and divides as cy-clo-se-rine under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.