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fraochan

fraochan is the alternative form of fraughan.

Meaning of fraughan

Noun

fraughan (plural fraughans)

  1. (Ireland) The bilberry or whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus).
    • Unlike the Wicklow Gold Mines at Mount Croughan, / Where thrives that Lilliputian Tree, the Fraughan.1824, Rory O'Reilly, Retrospection, Dublin: J. Carrick & Son, page 2

Forms of fraochan

pluralfraochans

Questions about fraochan

What is fraochan the alternative form of?
Fraochan is the alternative form of fraughan.

Words near fraochan in the dictionary

  1. franzy
  2. Français
  3. Française
  4. Françaises
  5. François
  6. fraochan
  7. fraochans
  8. frap
  9. frape
  10. fraped
  11. frapes

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