machair
English
Machair
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.
- 2023 February 24, “Bones under Highlands kitchen floor are Iron Age burial site”, in BBC News:
- Burials had been found north and south of Applecross, preserved in the soils of sandy coastal meadows known as machair.
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Anagrams
- Amharic
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
- Na Machraichean Mòra