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Carinate definition

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Shaped like or having a carina or keel; ridged.
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(biol.) Having a ridge down the middle; keel-shaped.
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Shaped like or having a carina or keel; ridged.
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Keel-shaped, as in a boat's keel.

A carinate calyx or leaf.

A carinate sternum.

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(ornithology) Of a bird, having a keeled breastbone allowing the attachment of flight muscles.
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Origin of carinate

  • Latin carinatus, from carina (“keel”).

    From Wiktionary

Carinate Sentence Examples

  • Shell with short spire, carinate and pointed.

  • Huxley, in 1868, divided the carinate birds into Dromaeo-, Schizo-, Desmo-, and Aegithognathae, an arrangement which for many years had a considerable influence upon classification.

  • Huxley regarded the above scheme as nearly representing the affinities of the various Carinate groups - the great difficulty being to determine the relations to the rest of the Coccygomorphae, Psittacomorphae and Aegithognathae, which he indicated " only in the most doubtful and hypothetic fashion."

  • Their body is generally compressed and slender; their broad ventral scutes are often carinate on the sides.

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