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terneries

terneries is the plural of ternery.

Meaning of ternery

Noun

ternery (plural terneries)

  1. A colony of terns.
    • Altogether Harvie-Brown has visited a great many Hebridean terneries, and paid special attention to their inhabitants.1888, John Alexander Harvie-Brown, Thomas Edward Buckley, A Vertebrate Fauna of the Outer Hebrides, Edinburgh: David Douglas, page 140

Questions about terneries

What is terneries the plural of?
Terneries is the plural of ternery.

Words near terneries in the dictionary

  1. Ternateno
  2. Ternatese
  3. terne
  4. terneplate
  5. terneplates
  6. terneries
  7. ternery
  8. ternes
  9. ternesite
  10. Terneuzen
  11. Terni

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