streptothricin

1. 1.

   a basic antibiotic derived from a soil actinomycete

   Broaderantibiotic

Other forms of streptothricin

plural

streptothricins·

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 streptothricin

What does streptothricin mean?

streptothricin means "a basic antibiotic derived from a soil actinomycete".

How many syllables are in streptothricin?

streptothricin has 4 syllables and divides as strep-to-thri-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.