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blinks

/blɪŋks/

blinks noun: a herbaceous annual plant of species Montia fontana, in the family Montiaceae, formerly included in the purslane family (Portulacaceae). Also the plural of blink.

blinks: a herbaceous annual plant of species Montia fontana, in the family Montiaceae, formerly included in...
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Noun (1)

blinks (uncountable)

  1. a herbaceous annual plant of species Montia fontana, in the family Montiaceae, formerly included in the purslane family (Portulacaceae).
    Synonyms:
    water blinks, water chickweed, annual water miner's lettuce

Noun (2) capitalized: BLINKs

BLINKs

  1. (plural) plural of BLINK

Noun (3) capitalized: Blinks

Blinks

  1. (plural) plural of Blink

Also used as

blinks is also the plural of blink.

blinks is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of blink.

Synonyms of blinks

Phrases with blinks

Words that rhyme with blinks

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Questions about blinks

What does blinks mean?
Blinks means a herbaceous annual plant of species Montia fontana, in the family Montiaceae, formerly included in the purslane family (Portulacaceae).
What part of speech is blinks?
Blinks is a noun.
How do you pronounce blinks?
Blinks is pronounced /blɪŋks/.

Words near blinks in the dictionary

  1. blinkings
  2. blinkle
  3. blinkled
  4. blinkless
  5. blinklessness
  6. blinks
  7. blinks first
  8. blinks of an eye
  9. blinkt
  10. blinky
  11. Blinn

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blinks (page history and authors); BLINKs (page history and authors); Blinks (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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