A keel (or in Latin carina), in anatomy, is a structure whose shape resembles the keel of a boat. The term may refer to:

Animal anatomy

Human anatomy

Plant anatomy

  • Keel (petal), the two bottom petals, below the wings, in flowers of the subfamily Faboideae of the flowering plant family Fabaceae; sometimes joined to form a structure whose shape resembles the keel of a boat

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