CARINA, among anatomists, is used to denote the spina dors; as likewise for the fibrous rudiments or embryo of a chick appearing in an incubated egg. The carina consists of the entire vertebra, as they appear after ten or twelve days incubation. It is thus called, because crooked in form of the keel of a ship.—Botanists
Carinola nifts also, for the like reason, use the word carina, to express the lower petal of a papilionaceous flower.
Carino. CARINÆ were also weepers or women hired among the ancient Romans to weep at funerals: they were thus called from Caria, the country whence most of them came.