Waterborne
adjective
1.
floating or moving on water; supported by water:
The ship was waterborne ten months after the keel was laid.
2.
transported by ship or boat:
waterborne commerce.
3.
communicated by water, especially drinking water:
waterborne diseases.
adjective
1.
floating or travelling on water
2.
(of a disease, etc) transported or transmitted by water
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