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CARINA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

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:

Nouns denoting body parts

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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