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‖ garigue, garrigue|garig| [Fr.] In the south of France, uncultivated land of a calcareous soil overgrown with low scrub; also, the vegetation found on such land.
1896Smithsonian Rep. 414 Uncultivated lands, there called the garrigues. 1903W. R. Fisher tr. Schimper's Plant-Geogr. iii. v. 516 Such waste tracts, in South France termed ‘garigues’, usually occur only on calcareous soil. 1914A. G. Tansley in H. S. Thompson Flowering Plants of Riviera 6 In rocky places where the pines are not well developed or are absent altogether the limestone scrub is very open, and there is much bare rock between the shrubs. This type of vegetation is called garigue. 1963G. Bellairs Death in Wasteland iv. 46 Part of it is garrigue, rocky uncultivated wasteland covered in prickly oaks. 1965Polunin & Huxley Flowers of Mediterranean 11 Extensive areas of the hottest and driest terrain are covered with garigue. |