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peniche

peniche noun: an engine-powered steel ship or vessel, larger than 15 meters, used for inland water transportation, and often modified in order to act as a docked restaurant or hotel.

Noun

peniche (plural peniches)

  1. An engine-powered steel ship or vessel, larger than 15 meters, used for inland water transportation, and often modified in order to act as a docked restaurant or hotel.
  2. Material inserted between a half-model, often of an airplane, and the wall of a wind tunnel.

Forms of peniche

pluralpeniches

Origin of peniche

From French péniche.

Questions about peniche

What does peniche mean?
Peniche means an engine-powered steel ship or vessel, larger than 15 meters, used for inland water transportation, and often modified in order to act as a docked restaurant or hotel.
What part of speech is peniche?
Peniche is a noun.
What is the plural of peniche?
The plural of peniche is peniches.

Words near peniche in the dictionary

  1. penhouses
  2. Penhow
  3. penial
  4. peniaphobia
  5. penible
  6. peniche
  7. peniches
  8. penicil
  9. penicilamine
  10. penicillamine
  11. penicillamines

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