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growan

growan noun: a decomposed granite, forming a mass of sandy gravel, found in tin lodes in Cornwall.

Noun

growan (countable and uncountable, plural growans)

  1. (UK, obsolete) A decomposed granite, forming a mass of sandy gravel, found in tin lodes in Cornwall.

Forms of growan

pluralgrowans

Origin of growan

From Cornish growan (“gravel”). Compare Armorican grouan (“gravel”), Cornish grow (“gravel, sand”).

Questions about growan

What does growan mean?
Growan means a decomposed granite, forming a mass of sandy gravel, found in tin lodes in Cornwall.
What part of speech is growan?
Growan is a noun.
What is the plural of growan?
The plural of growan is growans.

Words near growan in the dictionary

  1. grow up
  2. grow-op
  3. grow-ops
  4. growability
  5. growable
  6. growan
  7. growans
  8. growbag
  9. growbags
  10. growbox
  11. growboxes

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