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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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 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
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
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
Cones from 3 to 6 cm. long, ovate-conic, symmetrical; apophyses lustrous nut-brown, transversely carinate, the umbo unarmed.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
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