English edit

Etymology edit

multi- +‎ carinate

Adjective edit

multicarinate (comparative more multicarinate, superlative most multicarinate)

  1. (zoology) Many-keeled; having many keel-like ridges, as the shells of certain molluscs.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “multicarinate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)