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Carinate Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -ate

Carinate has 3 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles

Adjective
1

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

"a carinate sepal"

2

Keel-shaped, as in a boat's keel.

Related Terms
Antonyms
ratite bird
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
bird
Rhyming Words
ate bate late gate kate date wate cate rate nate oate sate tate jate hate mate fate yate agate skate
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