flukes
Anchor's gripping blades
Flukes names several unrelated things.
The flat triangular parts of an anchor are flukes.
The lobes of a whale's tail are flukes.
A flatworm parasite—especially one infecting livestock livers—is a fluke.
And a fluke is a stroke of luck, usually good: It was a fluke that we met.
Something achieved by chance rather than skill is fluky.
Happening by lucky chance
- serendipityAccidental fortunate discovery
- accidentUnintended harmful event
- happenstanceUnplanned circumstance
- coincidenceUnplanned matching of events
windfall · chance · random · unexpected · improbable · unlikely · anomaly · outlier
Parasitic flatworm class
- flatwormCompressed soft-bodied invertebrate
- infestationPest takeover situation
- hostOne receiving guests
- lifecycleStages from beginning to end
snail · intermediate · definitive · pathogen · helminth · parasitic · infection · sheep
fortuitous
Happening by lucky chance
- serendipityAccidental fortunate discovery
- accidentUnintended harmful event
- happenstanceUnplanned circumstance
coincidence · windfall · chance · random · unexpected · improbable · unlikely · anomaly · outlier · aberration
trematode
Parasitic flatworm class
- flatwormCompressed soft-bodied invertebrate
- infestationPest takeover situation
- hostOne receiving guests
lifecycle · snail · intermediate · definitive · pathogen · helminth · parasitic · infection · sheep · cattle
cetacean
Aquatic mammal order
breach · dive · slap · splash · horizontal · propulsion · mammal · ocean · pod · migration
barb
Backward-pointing spike
mooring · seabed · dig · grip · palm · shank · arm · stock · kedge · nautical
- flatwormsflatworm, flatworms, planarian, planarians, tapeworm
- invertebratesinvertebrate, arthropod, arthropods, mollusk, crustacean
- appendagesfins, fin, flipper, flippers, tail
- parasitestapeworm, roundworm, pinworm, hookworm, fleas
- random eventslottery, dice rolls, dice, coin flips, coin toss
- unpredictablessurprises, chance, randomness, uncertainty, unpredictables
flukesachievements
Completed goals worth noting
designs · strategies · certainties · inevitabilities · guarantees
flukescertainties
Assured truths
inevitabilities · regularities · patterns · norms · consistencies
- liver flukeParasitic flatworm targeting hepatobiliary system