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moorburns

moorburns is the plural of moorburn.

Meaning of moorburn

Noun

moorburn (plural moorburns)

  1. The controlled burning of moorland vegetation to encourage new growth (either heather or grassland) for the management of moorland game and wildlife or for improving the grazing potential.

Questions about moorburns

What is moorburns the plural of?
Moorburns is the plural of moorburn.

Words near moorburns in the dictionary

  1. moorberry
  2. moorbird
  3. moorbirds
  4. moorburn
  5. moorburning
  6. moorburns
  7. moorchat
  8. moorchats
  9. moorcock
  10. moorcocks
  11. Moorcroft

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moorburns (page history and authors); moorburn (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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