CARINATE BIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carinate bird mean? 

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

1. birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARINATE BIRD (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 bird" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "carinate bird"):

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