carinate
Americanadjective
adjective
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
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Cones from 4 to 8 cm. long, subsessile, symmetrical; apophyses lustrous, tawny yellow, transversely carinate, the keel strongly convex, the mucro of the umbo more or less persistent.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
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
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
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
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
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