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powan

powan noun: coregonus clupeoides, a species of freshwater whitefish endemic to Loch Lomond in Scotland.

Noun

powan (plural powans)

  1. Coregonus clupeoides, a species of freshwater whitefish endemic to Loch Lomond in Scotland.

powan meaning in Tamil

powan in Tamil

வெண்மீன்

Forms of powan

pluralpowans

Origin of powan

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic pollan. Doublet of pollan.

Questions about powan

What does powan mean?
Powan means coregonus clupeoides, a species of freshwater whitefish endemic to Loch Lomond in Scotland.
What is powan in Tamil?
Powan in Tamil is வெண்மீன். See Powan meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is powan?
Powan is a noun.
What is the plural of powan?
The plural of powan is powans.

Words near powan in the dictionary

  1. pow-wows
  2. powah
  3. powahs
  4. Powalski
  5. Powalskis
  6. powan
  7. powans
  8. powaqa
  9. powaqas
  10. Powassan
  11. Powassan encephalitis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: powan (page history and authors); powan (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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