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Quiraing

Quiraing proper noun: a landform on the eastern face of Meall na Suiramach, the northernmost summit of the Trotternish escarpment on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, taking the form of a craterous hollow surrounded by a high rampart of rock.

Proper noun

the Quiraing

  1. A landform on the eastern face of Meall na Suiramach, the northernmost summit of the Trotternish escarpment on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, taking the form of a craterous hollow surrounded by a high rampart of rock.

Origin of Quiraing

Scottish Gaelic [Term?]

Questions about Quiraing

What does Quiraing mean?
Quiraing means a landform on the eastern face of Meall na Suiramach, the northernmost summit of the Trotternish escarpment on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, taking the form of a craterous hollow surrounded by a high rampart of rock.
What part of speech is Quiraing?
Quiraing is a proper noun.

Words near Quiraing in the dictionary

  1. quiquehatch
  2. quiquehatches
  3. quiquihatch
  4. quiquihatches
  5. quira
  6. Quiraing
  7. Quirarte
  8. Quirartes
  9. quire
  10. quire ken
  11. quire kens

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