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food-borne

food-borne is the alternative form of foodborne.

Meaning of foodborne

Adjective

foodborne (not comparable)

  1. Transmitted through food.
    • Many people become ill by ingesting foodborne bacteria.

Phrases with food-borne

Questions about food-borne

What is food-borne the alternative form of?
Food-borne is the alternative form of foodborne.

Words near food-borne in the dictionary

  1. food wrap
  2. food wraps
  3. food writer
  4. food writers
  5. food writing
  6. food-borne
  7. food-borne disease
  8. food-borne diseases
  9. food-borne illness
  10. food-borne illnesses
  11. food-derived illness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: food-borne (page history and authors); foodborne (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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