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

Cones from 5 to 8 cm. long, peculiarly narrow-cylindrical, symmetrical; apophyses lustrous, rufous brown, radially carinate, the transverse keel prominent.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

If it was that of the carinate birds, how did the struthious birds and Dinosauria independently agree to differ?

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George

Flowering glume thin, compressed, carinate, 2-toothed, awned above by the excurrent mid nerve.

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

Empty glumes thin-membranaceous, acute, carinate, mostly nearly equalling the remote flowers; flowering glume thin and membranaceous or scarious, convex, scarcely keeled, faintly nerved, entire, pointless and awnless.

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

Leaves as in the last, but paler and thinner; spikes long and thin, attenuate at the apex; sepals oblong, acutely carinate; capsules cylindraceous-oblong, circumscissile much below the middle, 4–9-seeded; seeds oval-oblong, not reticulated.

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