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

Huxley, in 1868, divided the carinate birds into Dromaeo-, Schizo-, Desmo-, and Aegithognathae, an arrangement which for many years had a considerable influence upon classification.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

Specimens from the mountains have greatly carinate enlarged dorsals, large lateral tubercles, and heavily stippled throats; in these characters they resemble specimens from Morelos, Guerrero, and Oaxaca.

From The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México by Duellman, William E.

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

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

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