Meaning

2 senses
  1. Any protein (involved in an immune system) that when modified by a pathogen becomes bound by a guard protein, precipitating the immune response

  2. (rare)Guardsman

Origin

From guard + -ee.

From guard + -ee.

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Forms

plural: guardees
Singularguardee
Pluralguardees

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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