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pictarnie

pictarnie noun: a sea bird, the great tern.

Noun

pictarnie (plural pictarnies)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) A sea bird, the great tern.
    • “It's a pictarnie, sir, ” said Edie1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and...

Forms of pictarnie

pluralpictarnies

Origin of pictarnie

Diminutive of Scottish pictarne.

Questions about pictarnie

What does pictarnie mean?
Pictarnie means a sea bird, the great tern.
What part of speech is pictarnie?
Pictarnie is a noun.
What is the plural of pictarnie?
The plural of pictarnie is pictarnies.

Words near pictarnie in the dictionary

  1. pics or it didn't happen
  2. picspam
  3. picspams
  4. Pict
  5. Pict's house
  6. pictarnie
  7. pictarnies
  8. pictarny
  9. Pictavi
  10. pictel
  11. pictels

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