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

1 sense of streptomycin

Sense 1
streptomycin -- (an antibiotic produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces griseus and used to treat tuberculosis)
       => 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")