garrigue

• garigue

Borrowed from French garrigue, from Occitan.

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈriːɡ/

garrigue (countable and uncountable, plural garrigues)

1. 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.

   • 2009 August 29, Gord Stimmell, “Off ice, the Great One delivers Niagara terroir”, in Toronto Star‎:

     Pure blackberry, cedar and earthy garrigue aromas.

• garrigue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Occitan garriga, perhaps from a pre-Roman *carra (“stone”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ʁiɡ/

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garrigue f (plural garrigues)

1. garrigue

• chêne des garrigues

• “garrigue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.