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Definition of Keeled
1. Adjective. Having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship. "A carinate sepal"
Definition of Keeled
1. a. Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back; as, a keeled leaf.
Definition of Keeled
1. Verb. (past of keel) ¹
2. Adjective. Furnished with a keel, especially a keel of a specified type ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Keeled
1. keel [v] - See also: keel
Medical Definition of Keeled
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Keeled
Literary usage of Keeled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1864)
"Scales round base of tail equal, keeled, as large as antebrachial. ... Front and
muzzle scales longer than broad, one-keeled, in regular one large ..."
2. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"... scales on the tail keeled. Lustrous black; a faint line in the centre of each
scale; ... The scales are in 19 rows; all are strongly keeled. ..."
3. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) by George Albert Boulenger (1894)
"Scales in 19 rows; dorsals more or less die- [p. 33. tinctly keeled 3. ...
Scales smooth or faintly keeled. * Rostral as broad as deep. ..."
4. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"Dorsal rst very low, formed by a series of larger. •tied, not prominent scales.
Guiar sac none. •••il not compressed, with keeled scales below, ..."
5. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1821)
"Corolla, exterior valve shortest, membranous, compressed, keeled, emarginate,
the keel serrulate ; interior valve as lo g as the interior valve ot the calyx ..."
6. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1845)
"Scales of the back rather rhombic, subequal, slightly imbricate, indistinctly
keeled, of the sides rather smaller, similar, of the vertebral line, ..."
7. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"Palese nearly equal, membranaceous, awnless, often with a villous web at the
base; the lower one keeled or concave; upper one 2-keeled. ..."
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