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pictarny

pictarny is the alternative form of pictarnie.

Meaning of pictarnie

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 pictarny

pluralpictarnies

Questions about pictarny

What is pictarny the alternative form of?
Pictarny is the alternative form of pictarnie.

Words near pictarny in the dictionary

  1. picspams
  2. Pict
  3. Pict's house
  4. pictarnie
  5. pictarnies
  6. pictarny
  7. Pictavi
  8. pictel
  9. pictels
  10. picter
  11. picters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pictarny (page history and authors); pictarnie (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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