Hypertext Webster Gateway: "turbinated"

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.

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