foodborne

IPA/ˈfuːd.bɔːn/
IPA/ˈfuːd.bɔːrn/

foodborne — adjective

  • foodbornepositive
  • more foodbornecomparative
  • most foodbornesuperlative

1. describing an illness or infection that you get from eating food which contains

1.形容詞B2
釋義

describing an illness or infection that you get from eating food which contains harmful bacteria, viruses, or other dangerous substances

例句

The health department reported a foodborne illness that sickened ten people last week.

foodborne + illness — common collocation for diseases from food

Restaurant workers must wash their hands to prevent foodborne diseases from spreading.

文法句型

foodborne + noun (illness, disease, outbreak, infection)

用法筆記

Frequently used attributively before nouns describing health problems: foodborne illness, foodborne disease, foodborne outbreak. The word itself does not change form.

常見錯誤

❌I got a foodborne from the market.
✅I got a foodborne illness from the market.
💡foodborne is an adjective, not a noun, and must modify a word like illness or disease.
❌The foodborne chicken made us sick.
✅The foodborne illness from the chicken made us sick.
💡foodborne describes the disease, not the food itself.