antibiotics
Meaning of antibiotics
- a medicine (such as penicillin or its derivatives) that inhibits the growth of or destroys microorganisms.
course of antibiotics
an injection of antibiotic
mid 19th century (in the sense ‘doubting the possibility of life in a particular environment’): from anti- + Greek biōtikos ‘fit for life’ (from bios ‘life’).
Information about antibiotics
- It is a name.
- The singular form of antibiotics is: antibiotic.
- Languages in which antibiotics is used:
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Hyphenation of antibiotics
an-tibi-otics
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- antibiotics is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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