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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From cìoch (“breast, mammary gland, pap”, noun) + -ag (a feminine suffix used to form nouns meaning a smaller form of something) + tràghad, genitive singular of tràigh (“beach”) (from Old Irish tráig (“strand, shore, ebb-tide”)).
Noun
cìochag-thràghad f
- sea anemone, a group of water-dwelling, predatory animals of the biological taxonomic order Actiniaria.
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “cìochag-thràghad”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN