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Tinet vs Tinea - What's the difference?

tinet | tinea |

As a noun tinet

is (uk|obsolete) brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges.

As a proper noun tinea is

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tinet

English

Noun

  • (UK, obsolete) Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges.
    • (Webster 1913)

    tinea

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (pathology) A fungal infection of the skin known generally as ringworm.
  • *1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 6:
  • *:Her knees were ingrained with dirt, her toes raw with tinea , her fingernails black and broken.

    • Related terms

    * tinea cruris * tinea nigra

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