carinate
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of carinate
1775–85; < Latin carīnātus, equivalent to carīn ( a ) keel + -ātus -ate 1
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Archegonium with a slender persistent style, solitary on a usually very short branch; the perianth free from the involucral leaves, oval or oblong, terete or angular, variously carinate, cristate, or ciliate.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
The Rostro– carinate flints found at the base of the Crag are long bars with a beak–end, suited for breaking up earth.
From How to Observe in Archaeology by Various
If it was that of the struthious birds, how did the pterodactyles and carinate birds independently arrive at the very same divergent structure?
From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George
Basal glumes persistent, carinate, acute, somewhat 3-nerved, equalling or exceeding the spikelet.—Perennials; leaves flat.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Branches clustered; leaves loose, imbricate on the branches, round-ovate, entire; perianth pyriform, slightly compressed and repand, smooth, obscurely carinate beneath and gibbous toward the apex.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
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