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CARINAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does carinal mean?
• CARINAL (adjective)
The adjective CARINAL has 1 sense:
1. relating to or resembling a carina
Familiarity information: CARINAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or resembling a carina
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
carina (any of various keel-shaped structures or ridges such as that on the breastbone of a bird or that formed by the fused petals of a pea blossom)
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