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Orkney Islands   /ˈɔrkni ˈaɪləndz/   Listen
Orkney Islands

noun
1.
An archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland.





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... with the shell-fish known as the barnacle (which is found on timber exposed to the sea), supposing that the former was generated out of the latter. Thus in one old medical writer we find: "There are founde in the north parts of Scotland, and the Ilands adjacent, called Orchades (Orkney Islands), certain trees, whereon doe growe certaine shell fishes, of a white colour tending to russet; wherein are conteined little liuing creatures: which shells in time of maturitie doe open, and out of them ...
— Bygone Beliefs • H. Stanley Redgrove


Words linked to "Orkney Islands" :   Scotland, Atlantic Ocean, archipelago, Atlantic, North Sea


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