Hypertext Webster Gateway: "turbinate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Turbinate \Tur"bi*nate\, v. i.
To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Turbinate \Tur"bi*nate\, Turbinated \Tur"bi*na`ted\, a. [L.
turbinatus, turbo, turben, -inis, a whirl, top.]
1. Whirling in the manner of a top.
A spiral and turbinated motion of the whole.
--Bentley.
2. (Bot.) Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the
base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary,
pericarp, or root.
3. (Anat.) Turbinal.
4. (Zo["o]l.) Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from
a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
turbinate
adj 1: of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the
nasal passages
2: in the shape of a coil [syn: {coiling}, {helical}, {spiral},
{spiraling}, {volute}, {voluted}, {whorled}]
n : any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in
man and other vertebrates [syn: {turbinate bone}, {turbinal}]
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