-lik- noun
Etymology: New Latin puberulum (specific epithet of Penicillium puberulum, from Latin puber grown up, adult, downy + -ulum, neuter of -ulus, diminutive suffix) + English -ic
: a crystalline cyclic keto acid (HO) 3 (C 7 H 2 O)COOH related to tropolone that is a metabolic product of several molds of the genus Penicillium and that exhibits some germicidal activity against gram-positive bacteria