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food-borne illness

food-borne illness is the alternative form of foodborne illness.

Meaning of foodborne illness

Noun

foodborne illness (countable and uncountable, plural foodborne illnesses)

  1. Synonym of food poisoning.
    Synonyms:
    food poisoning

Forms of food-borne illness

pluralfood-borne illnesses

Questions about food-borne illness

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

Words near food-borne illness in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: food-borne illness (page history and authors); foodborne illness (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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