flinders
plural noun
splinters; small pieces or fragments.
flinders
1 American
[flin-derz]
/ ˈflɪn dərz /
plural noun
Flinders
2
American
[flin-derz]
/ ˈflɪn dərz /
noun
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Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
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a river in NE Australia, flowing NW to the Gulf of Carpentaria. 520 miles (837 km) long.
flinders
British
/ ˈflɪndəz /
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of flinders
1400–50; late Middle English flendris, perhaps < Scandinavian; compare Norwegian flindra splinter; perhaps akin to flint
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He’s been at it since “Independence Day” in 1996 when aliens blasted the White House to flinders.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2022
A stack of old Washington Post stories on the District’s street nomenclature had been reduced to flinders.
From Washington Post
Now, with their summer homes smashed to flinders, with even their beach, real estate so devastated that many an owner thought of letting it go in default of taxes, this opposition was silenced.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fishing craft were splintered, fishermen's shacks blown to flinders.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a small log cabin there, smashed to flinders.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
The study, led by Flinders University in partnership with researchers from the University of New South Wales and Macquarie University, was published in Nature Communications.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Lead author Associate Professor Trevor Worthy of Flinders University says the fossils reveal a bird community unlike anything seen in New Zealand today.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
The project also involved scientists from Flinders University and the University of Wollongong.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026
Lead author Corinne Mensforth, a PhD candidate from the Flinders Palaeontology Lab, says the fossil is especially valuable because it preserves the internal bones of the skull.
From Science Daily ● May 25, 2026
In his excavations at Tel el-Amarna, Professor Flinders Petrie has discovered fragments of lists of cuneiform characters, as well as of comparative dictionaries of Semitic Babylonian and Sumerian.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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