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Definition of Carinate

1. Noun. Birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles.

2. Adjective. Having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship. "A carinate sepal"

Definition of Carinate

1. a. Shaped like the keel or prow of a ship; having a carina or keel; as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).

Definition of Carinate

1. Adjective. Keel-shaped, as in a boat's keel. ¹

2. Adjective. (ornithology) Of a bird, having a keeled breastbone allowing the attachment of flight muscles. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Carinate

1. shaped like the keel of a ship [adj]

Medical Definition of Carinate

1. Shaped like a ridge, or having a structure so shaped. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carinate

carillonning carillons carina carina fornicis carina of trachea carina tracheae carinactivase carinae carinal carinal lymph nodes

carinaria carinarias carinas carinate (current term) carinate abdomen carinate bird carinated carination carine caring

caringly caringness cario- carioca cariocas cariogenesis cariogenic cariogenic agent

Literary usage of Carinate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"... ascending to the middle of the teeth; segments carinate, entire; ... or about into 16 carinate yellow segments, which are more distantly articulate, ..."

2. On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart (1871)
"of the Dinosauria with struthious birds; (3) that of the carinate and struthious birds with each other. Either birds must have had two distinct origins ..."

3. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1891)
"Front deeply impressed ; hind angles of thorax not carinate in either sex. ... Pygidium not carinate, at most a smooth median line 7. ~. ..."

4. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"linear-subulate: calyx-lobes carinate-crested: seed 1 mm. broad, lightly reticulated. Suaeda depressa erecta Wats. ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1876)
"carinate; punctures large, shallow, indistinct on account of the pubescence. ... flat; third, fifth, seventh and ninth finely but not strongly carinate. ..."

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