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quarantinable

quarantinable

English

Adjective

quarantinable (not comparable)

  1. Subject to quarantine; under quarantine.
    The quarantinable diseases are yellow fever, cholera, typhus or ship fever, small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles and relapsing fever. (1892)
    If the master, owner or consignee of any quarantinable vessel shall neglect or refuse to do any act or thing lawfully directed to be done... (1907)