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# fleming

«fleming» in Mova's school dictionary: **a family name** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

proper noun (Fleming, Flemings — a surname; also an old word for a person from Flanders)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fleming is a family name. The most famous is Alexander Fleming, a Scottish scientist who discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic medicine, when he noticed mould killing germs on a dish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleming/#m1)

2) Ian Fleming was a British writer who wrote the James Bond spy stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleming/#m2)

3) A Fleming is a person from Flanders, the Dutch-speaking north of Belgium. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleming/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and history lessons Alexander Fleming's discovery is a famous story of noticing something by luck and studying it carefully; penicillin has saved millions of lives. In everyday life it is a surname. Phrases: Alexander Fleming, Fleming's discovery.

### examples

- Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleming/#x1)
- Fleming noticed that mould had killed the bacteria on his dish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleming/#x2)
- Penicillin, found by Fleming, fights infections. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleming/#x3)
- Ian Fleming wrote books about the spy James Bond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleming/#x4)
- Our neighbours are the Flemings at number 12. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleming/#x5)
- The Flemings of Belgium speak Dutch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleming/#x6)
- Fleming's discovery started the age of antibiotics. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleming/#x7)

### note

Always a capital F. Related: Flemish (the language and adjective for Flanders). Myth: penicillin does not cure viruses like colds; antibiotics work against bacteria only.

### In the corpora

- [Toby's friend says Fleming found penicillin and saved everybody in like a day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day/0/)
- [Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first widely used antibiotic, in 1928.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/94-medicines-doctors-hospitals/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fleming» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleming/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.