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- Cornish · borrowed fromgrowan“gravel”
- English todaygrowan
From Cornish growan (“gravel”). Compare Armorican grouan (“gravel”), Cornish grow (“gravel, sand”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
growan
Today it means: A decomposed granite, forming a mass of sandy gravel, found in tin lodes in Cornwall. Full definition →
Cornish growan