Noun: antibiotic
| Singular | antibiotic |
| Plural | antibiotics |
Sample Sentences
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On a summer visit back to the farm here where I grew up, I think I figured out the central problem with modern industrial agriculture. It’s not just that it produces unhealthy food, mishandles waste and overuses antibiotics in ways that harm us all. [2009 August 22, Nicholas Kristof, “Food for the Soul”, in The New York Times:]
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We selected colistimethate sodium (CMS) as our antibiotic of choice. [2015 November 7, “Lung Microbiota Changes Associated with Chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lung Infection and the Impact of Intravenous Colistimethate Sodium”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:]
Nouns inflected like antibiotic
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French antibiotique; by surface analysis, anti- + -biotic. See: French Nouns '
antibiotique'.
Verbs referencing "antibiotic"
Dutch Nouns
antibioticum.