What is a synonym for groin?
In this page you can discover 25 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for groin, like: crotch, hamstring, intersection of thighs and abdomen, groyne, mole, inguen, privates, private-parts, thigh, knee and inguina (both Latin).
What is a groin in science?
Groin. (Science: anatomy) The area where the thigh meets the hip. Last updated on January 12th, 2021.
What is the definition of groyne in geography?
A groyne is a shore protection structure built perpendicular to the shoreline of the coast (or river), over the beach and into the shoreface (the area between the nearshore region and the inner continental shelf), to reduce longshore drift and trap sediments.
What is the groin muscle called?
The adductor muscles are a group of muscles in the groin area made up of six main muscles: adductor brevis, adductor longus, adductor magnus, pectineus, gracilis and obturator externus.
What is the purpose of groins?
Groins are shore perpendicular structures, used to maintain updrift beaches or to restrict longshore sediment transport. By design, these structures are meant to capture sand transported by the longshore current; this depletes the sand supply to the beach area immediately down-drift of the structure.
What is the primary purpose of building a groin along a coastline?
The natural longshore transport of sand on an eroding shoreline can be impeded by constructing groynes across the active beach. A groyne functions as a physical barrier by intercepting sand moving along the shore.
What is the purpose of a groyne?
Groynes were originally installed along the coastline in 1915. Groynes control beach material and prevent undermining of the promenade seawall. Groynes interrupt wave action and protect the beach from being washed away by longshore drift. Longshore drift is the wave action that slowly erodes the beach.
What is the purpose of a groin?
What is the synonym of swirling?
to turn round and round with a twisting motion. She smiled, swirling the wine in her glass. The water swirled around his legs. Synonyms. whirl.
What is the synonym of the word painted?
adj.portrayed. adj.finished. adj.made-up.
