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frawn

frawn 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 frawn

pluralfrawns

Questions about frawn

What is frawn the alternative form of?
Frawn is the alternative form of fraughan.

Words near frawn in the dictionary

  1. fravashis
  2. Fravel
  3. Fravels
  4. Frawley
  5. Frawleys
  6. frawn
  7. frawns
  8. fraxetin
  9. fraxidin
  10. fraxin
  11. fraxine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frawn (page history and authors); fraughan (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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