- penicillin
[penicillin 词源字典]
- penicillin: see pencil
[penicillin etymology, penicillin origin, 英语词源] - penicillin (n.)
- 1929, coined in English by Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), who first recognized its antibiotic properties, from Modern Latin Penicillium notatum (1867), the name of the mould from which it was first obtained, from Latin penicillus "paintbrush" (see pencil (n.)), in reference to the shape of the mould cells.