Usually means: Structures extending from coast, erosion control.
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  1. groins: Merriam-Webster
  2. groins: Collins English Dictionary
  3. groins: Vocabulary.com
  4. groins: Wordnik
  5. groins: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. groins: Wiktionary
  7. groins: Dictionary.com
  8. groins: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. groins: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. groins: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. groins: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. groins: Medical dictionary

(Note: See groin as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (groin)

noun:  The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
noun:  The area adjoining this fold or depression.
noun:  (architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
noun:  (geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.
noun:  (euphemistic) The genitals.
verb:  To deliver a blow to the genitals of.
verb:  (architecture) To build with groins.
verb:  (literary, transitive) To hollow out; to excavate.
verb:  To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
noun:  Alternative spelling of groyne [An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater.]
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