machair
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic machair.
Noun
machair (countable and uncountable, plural machairs)
- (geology) A type of calcareous sandy terrain formed mostly from seashells, found by the coast in areas of Scotland and Ireland.
Anagrams
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
machair m or f (genitive singular macharach or machrach, plural machraichean)
- (geography) extensive low-lying fertile plain, level country
- (geography) the southern or low-lying parts of Scotland
- (geography) extensive beach
- (geography) low and level part of a farm
- (geography, in the plural) long ranges of sandy plains fringing the Atlantic side of the Outer Hebrides
Derived terms
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- English terms derived from Scottish Gaelic
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- English nouns
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- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
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