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/kˈiːld/
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ADJECTIVE
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having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship
a carinate sepal
How To Use keeled In A Sentence
- He finished the bottle of whiskey, stood up to leave and keeled over.
- The _glume_ is about 1/6 inch long, ovate-oblong, somewhat boat-shaped, acute and shortly mucronate, strongly keeled, ciliate on the keel and margins, 5-nerved, the lateral nerves forming a thickened margin; A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- Glumes are many, broad, obtuse, acute or mucronate, never awned, dorsally rounded and keeled; the first and the second glumes are much shorter than the spikelet, equal or unequal, empty, persistent or separately deciduous, A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- He then keeled over and fell flat on his back.
- The storm contracted and spasmed, knotting and reknotting until with an audible groan the entire towering structure keeled over to slam into the canyon floor, sending a cloud of dust and sand flying. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
- But had Ganguly keeled over early on, so would have his side.
- Keeled" seems to cover both carinate and angular see Burch, 1962 p. 14 and p. Anguispira alternata angulata
- Should I go out and buy a bunch of flowers and lay them by the side of the pavement where poor sad Paul keeled over and breathed his last?
- Several th bustling places, happiness keeled over drunk the dreamland.
- Drew has keeled over to one side of the sofa and is laughing hysterically into the cushions.