medawar

1. 1.

   British immunologist (born in Brazil) who studied tissue transplants and discovered that the rejection of grafts was an immune response (1915-1987)

   SynonymsPeter MedawarSir Peter Brian Medawar

   Broaderimmunologist

Other forms of medawar

plural

medawars·

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 medawar

What does medawar mean?

medawar means "British immunologist (born in Brazil) who studied tissue transplants and discovered that the rejection of grafts was an immune response (1915-1987)".

How many syllables are in medawar?

medawar has 3 syllables: me-da-war. The stress falls on "me".

What is another word for medawar?

Close synonyms include Peter Medawar, Sir Peter Brian Medawar. 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 medawar a common word?

medawar 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.