CARINATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carinate mean? 

• CARINATE (noun)
  The noun CARINATE has 1 sense:

1. birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles

  Familiarity information: CARINATE used as a noun is very rare.

• CARINATE (adjective)
  The adjective CARINATE has 1 sense:

1. having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship

  Familiarity information: CARINATE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARINATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

carinate; carinate bird; flying bird

Hypernyms ("carinate" is a kind of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

Meronyms (parts of "carinate"):

keel (the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly)

Antonym:

ratite (flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds)

Derivation:

carinate (having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship)

• CARINATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Synonyms:

carinate; carinated; keeled; ridged

Context example:

a carinate sepal

Derivation:

carinate (birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles)