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carrier
[ kar-ee-er ]
/ ĖkƦr i Ér /
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British Dictionary definitions for carrier (1 of 2)
carrier
/ (ĖkƦrÉŖÉ) /
noun
British Dictionary definitions for carrier (2 of 2)
Carrier
/ (ĖkƦrÉŖÉ) /
noun
a member of an Athapaskan Native North American people of British Columbia
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Scientific definitions for carrier
carrier
[ kÄrā²Ä-Ér ]
A person, animal, or plant that serves as a host for a pathogen and can transmit it to others, but is immune to it. Mosquitoes are carriers of malaria.
An organism that carries a gene for a trait but does not show the trait itself. Carriers can produce offspring that express the trait by mating with another carrier of the same gene. See more at recessive.
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