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FINGAL'S CAVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Fingal's Cave mean?
• FINGAL'S CAVE (noun)
The noun FINGAL'S CAVE has 1 sense:
1. a large cave with basaltic pillars on Staffa island in Scotland
Familiarity information: FINGAL'S CAVE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large cave with basaltic pillars on Staffa island in Scotland
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
cave (a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea)
Holonyms ("Fingal's Cave" is a part of...):
Staffa (an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides to the west of Mull; site of Fingal's Cave)
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