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    Grani
    noun
    (in theVolsunga Saga ) the horse of Sigurd.
  • grani-
    grani-
    a combining form meaning “grain,” used in the formation of compound words.

Grani

1 American  
[grah-nee] / ˈgrɑ ni /

noun

  1. (in theVolsunga Saga ) the horse of Sigurd.


grani- 2 American  
  1. a combining form meaning “grain,” used in the formation of compound words.

    granivorous.


grani- British  

combining form

  1. indicating grain

    graniform

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of grani-

< Latin, combining form of grānum; akin to corn 1

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That same year, he launched Grani, a weekly opposition newspaper that published articles by muckraking journalists, among them Georgiy Gongadze, a harsh critic of Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine’s second post-Soviet leader, who was seen as corrupt.

From The New Yorker Dec. 16, 2019

With influence reaching into Pizzeria Mozza, Pizzana, Sotto and Cosa Buona among other places, Franco Pepe, of Caiazzo’s Pepe in Grani, has become almost the patron saint of highbrow pizza in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2017

Following the Grani incident, the Hamburg weekly Die Zeit published extracts in November of an epic poem, Prussian Nights, attributing it to Solzhenitsyn and promising more in later issues.

From Time Magazine Archive

Friends say that Solzhenitsyn has no idea how the play reached Grani, which is published by a fiercely anti-Soviet organization of Russian emigres in Frankfurt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Grani floundered in the fen: His saddle girth brake in pieces twain.

From Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes by Kershaw, Nora

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