terramycin

1. 1.

   a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trademark Terramycin) obtained from a soil actinomycete; used to treat various bacterial and rickettsial infections

   Synonymsoxytetracyclinehydroxytetracyclineoxytetracycline hydrochloride

   Broaderantibiotic

   trademark

Other forms of terramycin

plural

terramycins·

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 terramycin

What does terramycin mean?

terramycin means "a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trademark Terramycin) obtained from a soil actinomycete; used to treat various bacterial and rickettsial infections".

How many syllables are in terramycin?

terramycin has 4 syllables: ter-ra-my-cin. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for terramycin?

Close synonyms include oxytetracycline, hydroxytetracycline, oxytetracycline hydrochloride. 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 terramycin a common word?

terramycin 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.