antiprotozoal
adjective, noun
antiprotozoal is an adjective meaning “That inhibits or destroys protozoa” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-P-R-O-T-O-Z-O-A-L, and it appears about once in every 55 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antiprotozoal mean?
adjective
- 1
That inhibits or destroys protozoa
noun
- 1
Any drug used to fight diseases caused by protozoa
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antiprotozoal
- more antiprotozoal comparative
- most antiprotozoal superlative
- antiprotozoals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antiprotozoal?
Antiprotozoal appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Antiprotozoal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense that inhibits or destroys protozoa:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | antiprotozoário |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does antiprotozoal come from?
From anti- + protozoal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).