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meagrom

meagrom is the alternative form of megrim.

Meaning of megrim

Noun (1)

megrim (plural megrims)

  1. (archaic) A headache; a migraine.
  2. (archaic) A fancy, a whim, a caprice.
  3. (in plural) See megrims (“depression; any of various diseases of animals”).
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:megrim.

Noun (2)

megrim (plural megrims)

  1. A flatfish of the genus Lepidorhombus native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean; specifically, a Cornish sole, sail-fluke, witch or whiff (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis).
    • MEGRIM (LEPIDORHOMBUS WHIFFIAGONIS)[…]NOTE: In Ireland,this species is often called "witch", a name that properly belongs to the craigfluke, Glyptocephalus cynaglossus, which is a right-handed flatfish. Both species are marketed as "white sole."2016, http://specimenfish.ie/irish-record-fish/marine-species/megrim-lepidorhombus-whiffiagonis/

Forms of meagrom

pluralmeagroms

Questions about meagrom

What is meagrom the alternative form of?
Meagrom is the alternative form of megrim.

Words near meagrom in the dictionary

  1. meagrenesses
  2. meagrer
  3. meagres
  4. meagrest
  5. meagring
  6. meagrom
  7. meagroms
  8. meak
  9. Meakin
  10. meaking iron
  11. meaking irons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meagrom (page history and authors); megrim (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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