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quarantine flags

quarantine flags is the plural of quarantine flag.

Meaning of quarantine flag

Noun

quarantine flag (plural quarantine flags)

  1. A black and yellow flag (signal flag LIMA) formerly hoisted by a ship to show that it has contagious or infectious disease aboard, or by a ship that has been quarantined. This use was listed in Brown’s 1916 code of signals, but this use is no longer listed in contemporary editions of the International Code of Signals.

Questions about quarantine flags

What is quarantine flags the plural of?
Quarantine flags is the plural of quarantine flag.

Words near quarantine flags in the dictionary

  1. quaranteams
  2. quaranties
  3. quarantinable
  4. quarantine
  5. quarantine flag
  6. quarantine flags
  7. quarantined
  8. quarantinee
  9. quarantinees
  10. quarantiner
  11. quarantiners

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