Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like or having a carina or keel; ridged.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped like or furnished with a keel; keeled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shaped like the keel or prow of a ship; having a carina or keel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Keel-shaped, as in a boat's
keel . - adjective ornithology Of a bird, having a keeled
breastbone allowing the attachment of flightmuscles .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles
- adjective having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship
Etymologies
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Examples
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In my mind, "carinate" means that there is a distinct thickening of the shell carbonate along the perifery, not just a sharp change in curvature angular.
Anguispira alternata angulata AYDIN 2007
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More or less everything we currently know about this snail is in Anderson & Smith A redescription of the carinate pillsnail, Euchemotrema hubrichti (Pilsbry, 1940) (Pulmonata:Polygyridae), with notes on habitat and genetics.
Archive 2008-07-01 AYDIN 2008
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They showed that the long-snouted species M. superciliosus and M. leedsi had rather straight, robust, blunt-tipped teeth that belonged to the ‘crunch’ feeding guild, while broad-skulled species like M. cultridens had slender, slightly compressed, carinate teeth (carinae = cutting edges) that belonged to the ‘pierce’ guild.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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They showed that the long-snouted species M. superciliosus and M. leedsi had rather straight, robust, blunt-tipped teeth that belonged to the ‘crunch’ feeding guild, while broad-skulled species like M. cultridens had slender, slightly compressed, carinate teeth (carinae = cutting edges) that belonged to the ‘pierce’ guild.
My party and those marvellous metriorhynchids Darren Naish 2006
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More or less everything we currently know about this snail is in Anderson & Smith A redescription of the carinate pillsnail, Euchemotrema hubrichti (Pilsbry, 1940) (Pulmonata:Polygyridae), with notes on habitat and genetics.
Euchemotrema hubrichti AYDIN 2008
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By the way, Stephanie Clutts, student of Andy Anderson at Southern Illinois University, is examining the DNA of all the species of Anguispira and I am hopeful that she will be able to address the relationship between the typical and carinate forms of A. alternata.
Anguispira alternata angulata AYDIN 2007
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Furthermore, I have an impression (needs further research!) that A. alternata typical form is the dominant form among older museum collections, while the modern specimens I find are more carinate and even slightly keeled (to me carina means corner - so a sharper part of the curve - while keeled means an actual bump outward like the keel of a ship).
Anguispira alternata angulata AYDIN 2007
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"Keeled" seems to cover both carinate and angular see Burch, 1962 p. 14 and p.
Anguispira alternata angulata AYDIN 2007
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Excuse me, they retain the carinate morphs when adult too, or does that coalesces as long as they grow on?
Mysterious snails of the Potomac AYDIN 2007
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These ideas lead me to form a hypothesis that typical A. alternata might be going the way of the frogs becomming less common due to some factor, while the carinate form of A. alternata might be surviving in its typically low numbers, but now that might be all we are finding.
Anguispira alternata angulata AYDIN 2007
reesetee commented on the word carinate
keeled, having a ridge along the middle line
June 12, 2007