novobiocin

1. 1.

   an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used to treat infections by Gram-positive bacteria

   Broaderantibiotic

Other forms of novobiocin

plural

novobiocins·

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 novobiocin

What does novobiocin mean?

novobiocin means "an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used to treat infections by Gram-positive bacteria".

How many syllables are in novobiocin?

novobiocin has 5 syllables and divides as no-vo-bi-o-cin 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.