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Meanings of carinate in anglès

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

        Birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles.

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            Examples for "carinate bird"
            Examples for "carinate bird"
            1
            Arguably the heaviest flying bird is the kori bustard of southern Africa.
            BBC
            2
            The evidence comes from new research into the earliest known flying bird, archaeopteryx.
            The Irish Times
            3
            For a long time she gazed after it, the flying bird.
            Siddhartha
            4
            One brotherhood, in addition to fine flowing robes, has headgear not unlike a flying bird.
            The Irish Times
            5
            The Indian stood up and declared that the shadow was the reflection of a flying bird.
            Pathfinders of the West / Being the Thrilling Story of the Adven...