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carinulate

carinulate adjective: having the form of a carinula.

Adjective

carinulate (not comparable)

  1. Having the form of a carinula
    • Main sculpture on head dorsum coarse, longitudinally rugulose and/or carinulate, ground sculpture conspicuously areolate, always dull.2015 November 5, “Taxonomic Synopsis of the Ponto-Mediterranean Ants of Temnothorax nylanderi Species-Group”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of carinulate

From carinula + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Questions about carinulate

What does carinulate mean?
Carinulate means having the form of a carinula.
What part of speech is carinulate?
Carinulate is an adjective.

Words near carinulate in the dictionary

  1. Carinthia
  2. Carinthian
  3. Carinthians
  4. carinula
  5. carinulae
  6. carinulate
  7. carinule
  8. carinules
  9. cario-
  10. carioca
  11. cariocas

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