n :  a yellow crystalline broad-spectrum antibiotic C₂₂H₂₄N₂O₈ produced by a soil actinomycete of the genus Streptomyces (S. viridifaciens) or synthetically : also  :  any of various derivatives of tetracycline .
 
   
 
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