cìochag-thràghad

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From cìoch (breast, mammary gland, pap, noun) +‎ -ag (a feminine suffix used to form nouns meaning a smaller form of something) + tràghad, genitive singular of tràigh (beach) (from Old Irish tráig (strand, shore, ebb-tide)).

Noun

cìochag-thràghad f

  1. sea anemone, a group of water-dwelling, predatory animals of the biological taxonomic order Actiniaria.

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cìochag-thràghad”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN