semisynthetic

Speech parts

1. semisynthetic - Noun

2. semisynthetic - Adjective

3. semisynthetic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially

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Synonyms

synthetic man-made unreal artificial celluloid inflectional half-wild seminatural almost natural half-native half-natural hybrid native hybrid natural hybrid wild part-native

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Antonyms

natural true real organic genuine authentic

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Examples

man-made fibers Source: Internet

synthetic leather Source: Internet

By 1988 Poitier and collaborators had published a semisynthetic route from needles of T. baccata to taxol.sfn The view of the NCI, however, was even this route was not practical. Source: Internet

The isolation of 6-APA, the nucleus of penicillin, allowed for the preparation of semisynthetic penicillins, with various improvements over benzylpenicillin (bioavailability, spectrum, stability, tolerance). Source: Internet

History seeAlso Amoxicillin was one of several semisynthetic derivatives of 6-aminopenicillanic acid ( 6-APA ) developed at Beecham, England in the 1960s. Source: Internet

However, vitamins have been produced as commodity chemicals and made widely available as inexpensive semisynthetic and synthetic-source multivitamin dietary and food supplements and additives, since the middle of the 20th century. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

semisynchronous semisynthesis semisynthesize semisynthetically semisystematic semisystematically