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ballan

ballan is the clipping of ballan wrasse.

Meaning of ballan wrasse

Noun

ballan wrasse (countable and uncountable, plural ballan wrasses)

  1. A marine ray-finned fish of the species Labrus bergylta.
    Synonyms:
    ballan

Proper noun capitalized: Ballan

Ballan

  1. A town in the Shire of Moorabool, central western Victoria, Australia.

Forms of ballan

pluralballans

Phrases with ballan

Questions about ballan

What does ballan mean?
Ballan means a town in the Shire of Moorabool, central western Victoria, Australia.
What is ballan the clipping of?
Ballan is the clipping of ballan wrasse.
What part of speech is ballan?
Ballan is a proper noun.

Words near ballan in the dictionary

  1. ballahoo
  2. ballahoos
  3. ballahou
  4. ballahous
  5. Ballalaba
  6. ballan
  7. ballan wrasse
  8. ballan wrasses
  9. ballance
  10. ballanced
  11. ballances

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ballan (page history and authors); Ballan (page history and authors); ballan wrasse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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