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

1 sense of tyrocidine

Sense 1
tyrocidine, tyrocidin -- (a basic polypeptide antibiotic derived from a soil bacterium; a major component of tyrothricin)
       => 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")