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   Granary , 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.
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   Hence: (Fig.), A region fertile in grain; in this sense, equivalent to breadbasket, used figuratively; as, Ukraine, the granary of the Soviet Union.
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   The exhaustless granary of a world.
   Thomson.
   
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