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granary(dictionary)

granary (iou)



granary noun. L16.
[Latin granarium (usu. pl. -ia), from granum GRAIN noun1: see -ARY1.]
A storehouse for threshed grain. L16.
F. Fitzgerald The French and Japanese administrations had neglected to fill the emergency rice granaries.
fig. A country or region producing a large amount of grain; esp. such a region considered as the supplier of another region. L16.
Bosworth Smith Palestine was the granary of Tyre, supplying it with corn and oil. J. Raban The rest of Arabia had looked to the fertile soil of the plateau to provide a granary for the subcontinent.
Comb.: Granary bread (proprietary name for) a type of brown bread containing whole grains of wheat.