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Word of the Day – Machair

By July 2, 2025Word of the Day

Machair (noun)

ma-kair

(in the western Highlands of Scotland) a strip of sandy, grassy, often lime-rich land just above the high-water mark at a sandy shore: used as grazing or arable land.

C17: from Scottish Gaelic

Example sentences

“The flora on the machair was beautiful, rare species in full bloom.”

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