mefoxin

Other forms of mefoxin

plural

mefoxins·

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 mefoxin

What does mefoxin mean?

mefoxin means "one of several broad spectrum antibiotic substances obtained from fungi and related to penicillin (trade names Mefoxin); addition of side chains has produced semisynthetic antibiotics with greater antibacterial activity".

How many syllables are in mefoxin?

mefoxin has 3 syllables and divides as me-fox-in 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.

What is another word for mefoxin?

Close synonyms include cephalosporin. 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 mefoxin a common word?

mefoxin is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.