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tinea
tinea is a 5-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 4 senses
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- 1noun
A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm Sycosis.
- 2noun
A genus of small Lepidoptera, including the clothes moths and carpet moths.
- 3noun
type genus of the Tineidae: clothes moths
- 4noun
infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches
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