antibiotic drug vs streptomycin

streptomycin vs antibiotic drug

antibiotic drug and streptomycin both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
antibiotic drug	Yes	No	No	No
streptomycin	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, streptomycin is a hyponym of antibiotic drug; that is, streptomycin is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than antibiotic drug:

antibiotic drug: a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections
streptomycin: an antibiotic produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces griseus and used to treat tuberculosis

Other hyponyms of antibiotic drug include actinomycin, amphotericin, antimycin, antineoplastic antibiotic, Azactam, aztreonam, bacitracin, carbomycin, cephaloglycin, Kafocin, cephaloridine, cephalosporin, Mefoxin, chloramphenicol, Chloromycetin, Aureomycin, chlortetracycline, Cipro, ciprofloxacin, cycloserine, dihydrostreptomycin, doxorubicin, doxycycline, Vibramycin, E-Mycin, Erythrocin, erythromycin, Ethril, Ilosone, Pediamycin, Garamycin, gentamicin, gramicidin, kanamycin, Kantrex, Lincocin, lincomycin, mitomycin, Mutamycin, mycomycin, fradicin, Neobiotic, neomycin, novobiocin, Mycostatin, Nystan, nystatin, hydroxytetracycline, oxytetracycline, oxytetracycline hydrochloride, Terramycin, penicillin, polymyxin, Primaxin, pyocyanase, pyocyanin, spectinomycin, streptothricin, subtilin, Nebcin, tobramycin, tyrocidin, tyrocidine, tyrothricin, Vancocin, vancomycin, Viocin, viomycin.

antibiotic drug (noun)	streptomycin (noun)
a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections	an antibiotic produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces griseus and used to treat tuberculosis

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