Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun carina

2 senses of carina

Sense 1
Carina -- (a keel-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere; contains the start Canopus)
       INSTANCE OF=> constellation -- (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

Sense 2
carina -- (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)
       => structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure -- (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he has good bone structure")