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A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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A female given name from Latin occasionally used in English.
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A locality in the Rural City of Mildura, north western Victoria, Australia
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noun
A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat.
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Part of a papilionaceous flower consisting of two petals, commonly united, which encloses the organs of fructification.
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Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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The keel of the glume of grasses.
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Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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The principal nerve of a sepal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
The keel of the breastbone of birds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, ornithology
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noun
Any of several features that have a projecting central ridge.
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Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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any of various keel-shaped structures or ridges such as that on the breastbone of a bird or that formed by the fused petals of a pea blossom
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Broader terms: structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure
Narrower terms: carina fornicis, keel
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a keel-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere; contains the start Canopus
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Broader terms: constellation
History
Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin carīna (“the keel of a ship”)
Name of a fourth century martyr, feminine of Latin carinus, derivative of carus "beloved"; also a latinization of Karina and Karin (= Catherine) in northern Europe.
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Borrowed from Latin carīna (“keel”). Doublet of careen and carene.
Across languages
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