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AstraZeneca

The English word “AstraZeneca” has 1 meaning listed here.

proper noun

  1. The COVID-19 vaccine made by the AstraZeneca company.

Etymology

From AstraZeneca, a pharmaceutical and biotechnology company that created the vaccine. The company name was formed by the merger of Astra AB and Zeneca. Astra is from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́στρον (ắstron, “star”), whereas Zeneca, the company stated, “is an invented name, created by an agency instructed to find a name which began with a letter from either the top or bottom of the alphabet and was…

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