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shipborne

shipborne adjective: carried by ship.

Adjective

shipborne (not comparable)

  1. Carried by ship
    • shipborne helicopters

Origin of shipborne

From ship + borne.

Questions about shipborne

What does shipborne mean?
Shipborne means carried by ship.
What part of speech is shipborne?
Shipborne is an adjective.

Words near shipborne in the dictionary

  1. ship-to-ship
  2. Shipageddon
  3. Shipaulovi
  4. shipboard
  5. shipboards
  6. shipborne
  7. shipbound
  8. Shipbourne
  9. shipboy
  10. shipboys
  11. shipbreaker

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