oxa-

British  

combining form

1. indicating that a chemical compound contains oxygen, used esp to denote that a heterocyclic compound is derived from a specified compound by replacement of a carbon atom with an oxygen atom

   oxazine

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Example Sentences

Restaurant 8 in Liverpool has 3 AA Rosettes, The Bracebridge in Birmingham, Black and Green in Worcestershire, Restaurant OXA in Wirral which has two AA Rosettes, and the soon to open Dishes in Prestatyn, north Wales.

From BBC

Greece also doesn’t have so-called Gram-negative bacteria with gene mutations known as NDM, IMP and OXA-48, which are common elsewhere, Pournaras said.

From BusinessWeek

Oxa teola� his hlaforde, and se lareow syl� oxan on Godes cyrcan, gif he beg�� his hlafordes teolunga, ��t is, gif he boda� godspel his under�eoddum, for eor�licum gestreonum, and na for godcundre lufe.

From Project Gutenberg

Heo gemunde hw�t sum witega cw��, "Se oxa oncneow his hlaford, and se assa his hlafordes binne." �a geseah heo ��t cild licgan on binne, ��r se oxa and se assa gewunelice fodan seca�.

From Project Gutenberg

Ortus Sanitatis, 66, 67, 228 Oxa, 7 Oxford, 77, 78, 143 —— physic garden, 153 Paracelsus, 231 Paradisus, 116, 142 et seq.,

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