Definitions for carinate

carinate car·i·nate

Spelling: [kar-uh-neyt, -nit or kar- Carinate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 367 anagrams from letters in carinate (aaceinrt).

Definitions for carinate

adjective

  1. Zoology, Botany. formed with a carina; keellike.

Origin of carinate

1775-85; Latin carīnātus, equivalent to carīn(a) keel + -ātus -ate1

Examples for carinate

If it was that of the carinate birds, how did the struthious birds and Dinosauria independently agree to differ?

Rostrum dilated towards its anterior end, compressed and carinate beneath the large presphenoid fossae.

Calyx 5- (rarely 6-) parted; its lobes long-acuminate, with carinate midrib.

All other existing birds belong to the second division, and are called (from the keel on the breast-bone) carinate birds.

Calyx 5-parted, fleshy, enclosing the fruit (utricle) and often carinate or crested.

It must have been that of the struthious birds or that of the carinate birds, or something different from both.

carinate, keeled, furnished with a sharp ridge or projection on the lower side.

The Rostro– carinate flints found at the base of the Crag are long bars with a beak–end, suited for breaking up earth.

Word Value for carinate
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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