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cephems

cephems is the plural of cephem.

Meaning of cephem

Noun

cephem (plural cephems)

  1. Any of several antibiotics including the cephalosporins and cephamycins (cephams)

Questions about cephems

What is cephems the plural of?
Cephems is the plural of cephem.

Words near cephems in the dictionary

  1. Cepheid variable
  2. Cepheid variables
  3. cepheids
  4. cephelixin
  5. cephem
  6. cephems
  7. Cepheus
  8. cephid
  9. cephids
  10. Cephissia
  11. Cephissus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cephems (page history and authors); cephem (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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