spectinomycin

1. 1.

   an antibiotic used to treat gonorrhea

   Broaderantibiotic

Other forms of spectinomycin

plural

spectinomycins·

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 spectinomycin

What does spectinomycin mean?

spectinomycin means "an antibiotic used to treat gonorrhea".

How many syllables are in spectinomycin?

spectinomycin has 5 syllables and divides as spec-ti-no-my-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.