doxycycline

1. 1.

   an antibiotic derived from tetracycline that is effective against many infections

   “Vibramycin is the trade name of doxycycline”

   SynonymsVibramycin

   Broaderantibiotic

Other forms of doxycycline

plural

doxycyclines·

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 doxycycline

What does doxycycline mean?

doxycycline means "an antibiotic derived from tetracycline that is effective against many infections".

How many syllables are in doxycycline?

doxycycline has 4 syllables: dox-y-cy-cline. The stress falls on "y".

What is another word for doxycycline?

Close synonyms include Vibramycin. 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 doxycycline a common word?

doxycycline 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.