Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun antibiotic_drug

1 sense of antibiotic drug

Sense 1
antibiotic, antibiotic drug -- (a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections; "when antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder drugs")
       => antibacterial, antibacterial drug, bactericide -- (any drug that destroys bacteria or inhibits their growth)