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tickborne

tickborne adjective: borne by ticks.

Adjective

tickborne (not comparable)

  1. Borne by ticks.
    • LYNE DISEASE, THE MOST PREVALENT tickborne infection in the United States, can vary greatly from one person to the next.2010 (publication date), Pamela Weintraub, "The 13 Faces of Lyme", Discover, ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 62

Origin of tickborne

From tick + borne.

Questions about tickborne

What does tickborne mean?
Tickborne means borne by ticks.
What part of speech is tickborne?
Tickborne is an adjective.

Words near tickborne in the dictionary

  1. tickbeans
  2. tickbird
  3. tickbirds
  4. tickbite
  5. tickbites
  6. tickborne
  7. tickbox
  8. tickboxes
  9. ticked
  10. ticked a lock
  11. ticked all the boxes

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