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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  antibiotic \an`ti*bi*ot"ic\ n.
     1. A chemical substance derived from a mold or bacterium that
        kills microorganisms and cures infections.
  
     Syn: wonder drug
          [WordNet 1.5]


  
     2. any chemical substance having therapeutically useful
        antibacterial or antifungal activity; -- used commonly but
        loosely for synthetic as well as natural antimicrobial
        agents.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  antibiotic \antibiotic\ adj.
     1. of or pertaining to an antibiotic.
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. having antimicrobial activity; capable of killing
        microbes.
        [PJC] -- {antibiotically}, n.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  antibiotic
       adj : of or relating to antibiotic drugs
       n : a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that
           kills microorganisms and cures infections; "when
           antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder
           drugs" [syn: {antibiotic drug}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "antibiotic":
     Chloromycetin, Terramycin, acaricide, actinomycin, alexipharmic,
     amphotericin, antacid, anthelmintic, antidotal, antimicrobial,
     antipyretic, antiseptic, antitoxic, bacitracin, bacteriostatic,
     bug bomb, carbamate insecticide, carbomycin, chemosterilant,
     chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide, chlortetracycline,
     cloxacillin, contact poison, defoliant, dihydrostreptomycin,
     disinfectant, eradicant, erythromycin, febrifugal, fradicin,
     fumigant, fungicide, germicide, gramicidin, griseofulvin,
     herbicide, insect powder, insecticide, methicillin, microbicide,
     miticide, mitomycin, organic chlorine,
     organic phosphate insecticide, penicillin, pesticide, poison,
     rat poison, roach paste, roach powder, rodenticide, stomach poison,
     streptomycin, streptothricin, subtilin, sulfa, systemic,
     systemic insecticide, tetracycline, toxic, toxicant, toxin,
     tylocin, tyrothricin, vancomycin, venin, venom, vermicide,
     viomycin, virus, weed killer
  
  

















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