Word.ws English Dictionary

cereulide

cereulide noun: a cytotoxic dodecadepsipeptide produced by Bacillus cereus.

Noun

cereulide (uncountable)

  1. A cytotoxic dodecadepsipeptide produced by Bacillus cereus.

Origin of cereulide

From cereus + lactone + -ide. Compare macrolide.

Questions about cereulide

What does cereulide mean?
Cereulide means a cytotoxic dodecadepsipeptide produced by Bacillus cereus.
What part of speech is cereulide?
Cereulide is a noun.

Words near cereulide in the dictionary

  1. Ceresian
  2. ceresin
  3. ceresine
  4. ceresines
  5. ceresins
  6. cereulide
  7. cereus
  8. cereuses
  9. cerevis
  10. cerevises
  11. cerevisiae

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cereulide (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cereulide.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cereulide. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.