adj. Furnished with a keel, especially a keel of a specified type
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back.
adj. Having a median ridge; carinate.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Having a keel; furnished with or exhibiting a longitudinal ridge resembling the keel of a boat, as a leaf or other object; ridged lengthwise in the middle underneath, as the sternum of a carinate bird (see cut under carinate); carinated.
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adj. having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship
Word Usage
"Although he makes the point that the periphery is "hardly to be called keeled", to me "carinated", "angular" and "keeled" all mean more or less the same thing, especially when the degree of carination is variable."