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Definition of Carinal
1. Adjective. Relating to or resembling a carina.
Definition of Carinal
1. Adjective. Relating to a carina ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Carinal
1. carina [adj] - See also: carina
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carinal
Literary usage of Carinal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia: With Figures of All the Species by Charles Darwin (1854)
"36) the longitudinal furrow is generally plainer, from being more distant from
the carinal margin, and the rudimentary spur itself is more prominent. ..."
2. The Barnacles (Cirripedia) Contained in the Collections of the U.S. National by Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1907)
"<i, rostral and <•, carinal details; //. lateral view; ... and b carinal views
of the type; c, young individual; ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1900)
"The keel is moderately well developed, the distance from the base of the manubrium
to the carinal angle being equal to the distance from the same point at ..."
4. A Treatise on the British Freshwater Algae by George Stephen West (1904)
"The valve-view is generally straight, with attenuated apices, and a row of carinal
dots, either median or at one edge. The girdle-view is linear or sigmoid, ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"The lateral strands, as a whole, are differentiated later than the carinal
strand (as might be expected from the close relation of the latter to the leaves) ..."
6. The Fertilisation of Flowers by Hermann Müller, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Charles Darwin (1883)
"On this account the union of the two carinal petals is strengthened by a still
more marked outgrowth (VI, 4), and the alse and carina are connected with ..."
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