See moistureborne on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"moisture",
"moisture#English"
],
[
"-borne",
"-borne#English"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": ":af",
"3": "moisture",
"4": "-borne",
"text": "+",
"tree": "1"
},
"expansion": "From moisture + -borne.",
"name": "ety"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": ":af",
"3": "moisture",
"4": "-borne",
"text": "+",
"tree": "1"
},
"expansion": "Etymology tree\nEnglish moisture\nProto-Indo-European *bʰer-\nProto-Indo-European *-eti\nProto-Indo-European *bʰéreti\nProto-Germanic *beraną\nProto-West Germanic *beran\nOld English beran\nOld English (ġe)boren\nMiddle English boren /iborne\nEnglish borne\nEnglish -borne\nEnglish moistureborne\nFrom moisture + -borne.",
"name": "ety"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From moisture + -borne.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "moistureborne (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries referencing missing etymons",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with etymology texts",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with etymology trees",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with etymon",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -borne",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages using etymon with no ID",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with etymology trees",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with etymon",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
38,
51
]
],
"ref": "1990, Greg Williams, The Garden that Cares for Itself, page 80:",
"text": "To reduce the chances of transmitting moistureborne disease organisms from one plant to another, you should wait until the dew is gone to enter your flower garden.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
80,
93
]
],
"ref": "2011, John P. Rafferty, editor, Reptiles and Amphibians, page 35:",
"text": "It is a patch of sensory cells within the main nasal chamber that detects heavy moistureborne odour particles.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
97,
110
]
],
"ref": "2012 September 19, Gianaclis Caldwell, Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking: The Ultimate Guide for Home-Scale and Market Producers, page 217:",
"text": "There is almost no limit to the number of fungi (that includes molds and yeasts) and airborne or moistureborne bacteria that can inhabit an aging room.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Carried or transmitted by moisture."
],
"id": "en-moistureborne-en-adj-CUwhcR-P",
"links": [
[
"Carried",
"carried"
],
[
"transmitted",
"transmitted"
],
[
"moisture",
"moisture"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) Carried or transmitted by moisture."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable",
"rare"
]
}
],
"word": "moistureborne"
}
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"moisture",
"moisture#English"
],
[
"-borne",
"-borne#English"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": ":af",
"3": "moisture",
"4": "-borne",
"text": "+",
"tree": "1"
},
"expansion": "From moisture + -borne.",
"name": "ety"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": ":af",
"3": "moisture",
"4": "-borne",
"text": "+",
"tree": "1"
},
"expansion": "Etymology tree\nEnglish moisture\nProto-Indo-European *bʰer-\nProto-Indo-European *-eti\nProto-Indo-European *bʰéreti\nProto-Germanic *beraną\nProto-West Germanic *beran\nOld English beran\nOld English (ġe)boren\nMiddle English boren /iborne\nEnglish borne\nEnglish -borne\nEnglish moistureborne\nFrom moisture + -borne.",
"name": "ety"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From moisture + -borne.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "moistureborne (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries referencing missing etymons",
"English entries with etymology texts",
"English entries with etymology trees",
"English entries with etymon",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer-",
"English terms suffixed with -borne",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Pages using etymon with no ID",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Pages with etymology trees",
"Pages with etymon"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
38,
51
]
],
"ref": "1990, Greg Williams, The Garden that Cares for Itself, page 80:",
"text": "To reduce the chances of transmitting moistureborne disease organisms from one plant to another, you should wait until the dew is gone to enter your flower garden.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
80,
93
]
],
"ref": "2011, John P. Rafferty, editor, Reptiles and Amphibians, page 35:",
"text": "It is a patch of sensory cells within the main nasal chamber that detects heavy moistureborne odour particles.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
97,
110
]
],
"ref": "2012 September 19, Gianaclis Caldwell, Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking: The Ultimate Guide for Home-Scale and Market Producers, page 217:",
"text": "There is almost no limit to the number of fungi (that includes molds and yeasts) and airborne or moistureborne bacteria that can inhabit an aging room.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Carried or transmitted by moisture."
],
"links": [
[
"Carried",
"carried"
],
[
"transmitted",
"transmitted"
],
[
"moisture",
"moisture"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) Carried or transmitted by moisture."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable",
"rare"
]
}
],
"word": "moistureborne"
}
Download raw JSONL data for moistureborne meaning in All languages combined (2.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-10-01 using wiktextract (c1bb342 and 6f96ddf). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.