streptomycin

1. 1.

   an antibiotic produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces griseus and used to treat tuberculosis

   Broaderantibiotic

Other forms of streptomycin

plural

streptomycins·

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 streptomycin

What does streptomycin mean?

streptomycin means "an antibiotic produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces griseus and used to treat tuberculosis".

How many syllables are in streptomycin?

streptomycin has 4 syllables: strep-to-my-cin. The stress falls on "to".

Is streptomycin a common word?

streptomycin 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.