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CARINA
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Irregular inflected form: carinae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("carina" is a kind of...):
anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carina"):
carina fornicis (ridge on the lower surface of the fornix of the brain)
keel (the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A keel-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere; contains the star Canopus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)
Meronyms (members of "Carina"):
Canopus (supergiant star 650 light years from Earth; second brightest star in the sky)
Holonyms ("Carina" is a part of...):
Argo (formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross; now divided into Carina and Pyxis and Puppis and Vela)
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