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Clava cairn

Clava cairn noun: a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn.

Noun

Clava cairn (plural Clava cairns)

  1. A type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn.

Forms of Clava cairn

pluralClava cairns

Origin of Clava cairn

Named after the group of three cairns at Balnuaran of Clava, to the east of Inverness in Scotland.

Questions about Clava cairn

What does Clava cairn mean?
Clava cairn means a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn.
What part of speech is Clava cairn?
Clava cairn is a noun.
What is the plural of Clava cairn?
The plural of Clava cairn is Clava cairns.

Words near Clava cairn in the dictionary

  1. claut
  2. clauted
  3. clauting
  4. clauts
  5. clava
  6. Clava cairn
  7. Clava cairns
  8. clavacin
  9. clavagellid
  10. clavagellids
  11. claval

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