antibiotic drug vs tyrothricin

tyrothricin vs antibiotic drug

antibiotic drug and tyrothricin both are nouns.

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

As nouns, tyrothricin is a hyponym of antibiotic drug; that is, tyrothricin 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
tyrothricin: a mixture of antibiotics applied locally to infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria

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, streptomycin, streptothricin, subtilin, Nebcin, tobramycin, tyrocidin, tyrocidine, Vancocin, vancomycin, Viocin, viomycin.

antibiotic drug (noun)	tyrothricin (noun)
a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections	a mixture of antibiotics applied locally to infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria

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