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Granary \Gran"a*ry\, n.; pl. Granaries . [L. granarium, fr. granum grain. See Garner .] A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornhouse. Hence: (Fig.), A region fertile in grain; in this sense, equivalent to breadbasket ...
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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Traditionally the province has functioned as the country's breadbasket .
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n. 1 A basket used for storing or carrying bread. 2 A region where grain is grown. 3 (context humorous English) The stomach.
Usage examples of breadbasket.
Vanessa with a casual nod, swung the last of the wicker breadbaskets to her shoulder, and the three women set off together through the cobbled streets.
The Ukraine had once been a breadbasket, but climate change had made it a dustbowl, and those of his relatives who were still there were starving.
They can put up a notice saying that the breadbasket is by Scarlet Feather.
The shaman crashed atop her, and smashed both knees into her breadbasket to drive out her wind.
And hauling back knotty arms, she slammed him in the breadbasket hard, four times in four seconds.
The middle orc froze in fear, and Sunbright pierced its breadbasket, then twisted the hook to carve a hole that spilled guts.
They grew to the size of snowballs, breadbaskets, mastodons, houses, skyscrapers, mountains, worldlets.
Venusian Habitat, discussed horse breeding with a minor consular official from the Texan Dependency, was gracious to the charge d'affaires for the Titanian government-in-exile, and chatted about nothing in particular with an English-speaking sheik from the little desert kingdom of Iowa, whose ancestors had been wheat farmers before the greenhouse effect had shifted the American breadbasket northeast to the Islamic Commonwealth of Quebec.
When the sword ended its arc, too high to nick Magog, she jabbed for his breadbasket, thrust upwards.
At a time when we were barely able to feed our own people, why would we ruin the breadbasket of the Western Hemisphere?
Southwest and Mississippi Valley to the modern American breadbaskets of California and Oregon, where Native American societies remained hunter-gatherers merely because they lacked appropriate domesticates.
When the plutonium ran out, it metamorphized into an agricultural world, becoming the breadbasket for half a dozen nearby systems.
Natalie brought Jordan a straw breadbasket filled with an assortment of objects including several scissors, a pocketknife, two oversized nail files, and a set of brass knuckles.
Besides which, I have prosciutto in this breadbasket, along with the most amiable sweet sparkling wine: Prosecco, Mary, the pride of the Veneto.
Since Resources and Supplies had agitated in council for another breadbasket planet in that sector of the galaxy and Zobranoirundisi was unoccupied, we were sent in, chartered to be self-sufficient in one sidereal year and to produce a surplus in two.