garrigue
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French garrigue, from Occitan.
Pronunciation
Noun
garrigue (countable and uncountable, plural garrigues)
- A type of low scrubland found on limestone soils in southern France and other parts of the Mediterranean Basin.
- Synonym: (Greece) phrygana
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 246:
- Far away, on the stony garrigues by the fading light of the harvest moon one could hear the musical calling of wolves.
Translations
vegetation
Further reading
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Occitan garriga, perhaps from a pre-Roman *carra (“stone”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
garrigue f (plural garrigues)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*carra”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 411
Further reading
- “garrigue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.