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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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
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
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
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
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
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