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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Granary \Gran"a*ry\, noun; pl. {Granaries}. [L. granarium, fr. granum grain. See {Garner}.]
1. A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornhouse.
2. Hence: (Fig.), A region fertile in grain; in this sense, equivalent to {breadbasket}, used figuratively; as, Ukraine, the granary of the Soviet Union. [1913 Webster +PJC]
The exhaustless granary of a world. --Thomson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
granary
noun: a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed [syn: {garner}]
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