carina
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1. 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 (noun.body)
| hyponym | : | carina fornicis, |
| definition | : | ridge on the lower surface of the fornix of the brain (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | keel, |
| definition | : | the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly (noun.body) |
2. a keel-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere; contains the start Canopus (noun.object)
| instance hypernym | : | constellation, |
| definition | : | a configuration of stars as seen from the earth (noun.object) |
| part meronym | : | argo, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.object) |
| member holonym | : | canopus, |
| definition | : | supergiant star 650 light years from Earth; second brightest star in the sky (noun.object) |
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