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Carina

//kəˈɹiːnə// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    A female given name from Latin occasionally used in English.
  3. 3
    A locality in the Rural City of Mildura, north western Victoria, Australia
Noun
  1. 1
    A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat.
  2. 2
    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 wordnet
  3. 3
    Part of a papilionaceous flower consisting of two petals, commonly united, which encloses the organs of fructification.
  4. 4
    The keel of the glume of grasses.
  5. 5
    The principal nerve of a sepal.
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  1. 6
    The keel of the breastbone of birds.
  2. 7
    Any of several features that have a projecting central ridge.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin carīna (“the keel of a ship”)

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Latin carīna (“keel”). Doublet of careen and carene.

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