Thesaurus:antibiotic

Thesaurus

antibiotic

English

Noun

Sense: substance that can inhibit the growth of bacteria

Synonyms

• antibiotic

Hyponyms

• erythromycin
• moenomycin
• penicillin
• phytoalexin
• polymyxin

Instances

• amoxicillin
• ampicillin
• azitromycin
• ceftriaxone
• cefuroxime
• doxycycline
• methicillin
• metronidazole
• minocycline
• tetracycline
• tigecycline
• tyrocidine
• vancomycin

Hypernyms

• pharmaceutical    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “antibiotic” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “antibiotic” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.