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vraic

/vɹeɪk/

vraic noun: seaweed gathered for use as a fertilizer or fuel.

Noun

vraic (uncountable)

  1. (Channel Islands) Seaweed gathered for use as a fertilizer or fuel.
    • There was some sort of big pans, I didn't know what they was for; but Jim said once upon a time they was used to boil vraic to make iodine.1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 45

vraic meaning in Tamil

vraic in Tamil

கடற்பாசி வகை

Forms of vraic

alternative formvrack
alternative formvraick

Origin of vraic

From Auregnais Norman vraic (“seaweed”), from Germanic. Doublet of wrack.

Words formed from vraic

Words that rhyme with vraic

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Questions about vraic

What does vraic mean?
Vraic means seaweed gathered for use as a fertilizer or fuel.
What is vraic in Tamil?
Vraic in Tamil is கடற்பாசி வகை. See Vraic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vraic?
Vraic is a noun.
How do you pronounce vraic?
Vraic is pronounced /vɹeɪk/.

Words near vraic in the dictionary

  1. Vrabel
  2. Vrabels
  3. Vrachasi
  4. vrack
  5. Vraconian
  6. vraic
  7. vraick
  8. vraicker
  9. vraickers
  10. vraicking
  11. vraicqueur

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vraic (page history and authors); vraic (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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