carinate

American  

[kar-uh-neyt, -nit] / ˈkær əˌneɪt, -nɪt /

Also carinated

adjective

1. Zoology, Botany. formed with a carina; keellike.

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carinate British  

/ ˈkærɪˌneɪt /

adjective

1. biology having a keel or ridge; shaped like a keel

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Other Word Forms

• carination noun
• multicarinate adjective
• multicarinated adjective
• subcarinate adjective
• subcarinated adjective

Etymology

Origin of carinate

1775–85; < Latin carīnātus, equivalent to carīn ( a ) keel + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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

Empty glumes persistent, membranaceous and shining, carinate, acute, nearly equal; flowering glumes toothed or erose-denticulate at the truncate summit, usually delicately 3–5-nerved, with a slender twisted awn near or below the middle.

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

Style 3-cleft; achene triangular; stamens 3; spikelets many-flowered, flattened, the carinate scales decurrent upon the rhachis as scarious wings; spikes in simple or compound umbels.

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

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