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61fluke disease — trematodiasis …
62fluke — Synonyms and related words: Chilopoda, Chordata, Echiuroidea, Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, Monoplacophora, Nemertinea, Phoronidea, accident, adventure, blessing, break, casualty, chance hit, contingency, contingent, fortuity, freak accident, hap,… …
63fluke — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. stroke of luck, accident; [lucky] break. See chance. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. stroke of luck, good fortune, windfall, *one in a million, *lucky strike, break, fortuity, godsend, serendipity,… …
64fluke — part of an anchor that fastens in the ground Nautical Terms …
65fluke — fluËk n. triangular tip on the arm of an anchor; barbed end of a harpoon; flatfish; parasitic flatworm; lucky occurrence; either half of a whale s tail …
66fluke — fluke1 noun an unlikely chance occurrence, especially a stroke of luck. verb achieve by luck rather than skill. Derivatives flukily adverb flukiness noun fluky (also flukey) adjective Origin C19 (orig. a term in games such as billiards denoting a …
67fluke — n 1. lucky stroke, stroke of luck or fortune, stroke of good luck or fortune; windfall, blessing, accidental advantage, piece of good luck or fortune; lucky chance, Inf. big chance, Sl. break, Sl. lucky or good or big break; chance, fortuity,… …
68fluke — n. any of the parasitic flatworms belonging to the group Trematoda. Adult flukes, which have suckers for attachment to their host, are parasites of humans, occurring in the liver (liver flukes; see Fasciola), lungs (see Paragonimus), gut (see… …
69fluke — [fluːk] noun [C] informal something good that happens unexpectedly because of good luck …
70Fluke — Flu|ke, die; , n (quer stehende Schwanzflosse der Wale) …
