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carina

DEFINITIONS OF: carina

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n 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

Types:
carina fornicis
ridge on the lower surface of the fornix of the brain
keel
the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly
Type of:
anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure
a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing
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