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garigue

garigue is the alternative form of garrigue.

Meaning of garrigue

Noun

garrigue (countable and uncountable, plural garrigues)

  1. A type of low scrubland found on limestone soils in southern France and other parts of the Mediterranean Basin.
    • Far away, on the stony garrigues by the fading light of the harvest moon one could hear the musical calling of wolves.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 246
    Synonyms:
    phrygana

Forms of garigue

pluralgarigues

Questions about garigue

What is garigue the alternative form of?
Garigue is the alternative form of garrigue.

Words near garigue in the dictionary

  1. garification
  2. Garifuna
  3. Garifuna Settlement Day
  4. Garifunas
  5. Garifune
  6. garigue
  7. garigues
  8. Garima
  9. Garinagu
  10. Garis
  11. Garises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: garigue (page history and authors); garrigue (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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