CARINA (carinae)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: carinae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Carina mean? 

• CARINA (noun)
  The noun CARINA has 2 senses:

1. a keel-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere; contains the star Canopus

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

  Familiarity information: CARINA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARINA (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

The carina of trachea is part of the lowest tracheal cartilage which is placed between the orifices of the two bronchi.

(Carina, NCI Thesaurus)

This particular red dwarf is a candidate member of the Carina association, which would make it around 45 million years old.

(A Potential New Hunting Ground for Exoplanets, NASA)

Also called tracheal carina.

(Carina of trachea, NCI Dictionary)

The disk and its star are located in what is dubbed the Carina association – a large, loose grouping of similar stars in the Carina Nebula approximately 212 light years from our sun.

(A Potential New Hunting Ground for Exoplanets, NASA)