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Keeled

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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back.
  • adjective. Having a median ridge; carinate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of keel.
  • adjective. Furnished with a keel, especially a keel of a specified type
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. 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."
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    keel