cìochag-thràghad

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

  1. 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
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