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pentaresistant

pentaresistant adjective: resistant to five different drugs (typically to antibiotics).

Adjective

pentaresistant (not comparable)

  1. resistant to five different drugs (typically to antibiotics)

Origin of pentaresistant

From penta- + resistant.

Questions about pentaresistant

What does pentaresistant mean?
Pentaresistant means resistant to five different drugs (typically to antibiotics).
What part of speech is pentaresistant?
Pentaresistant is an adjective.

Words near pentaresistant in the dictionary

  1. pentarchs
  2. pentarchy
  3. pentarepeat
  4. pentarepeats
  5. pentaresistance
  6. pentaresistant
  7. pentaribonucleotide
  8. pentaribonucleotides
  9. pentarsic
  10. pentas
  11. pentasaccharide

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