turbinate
turbinate is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 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.(Zoöl.) Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- What is whirling in the manner of a top. A spiral and turbinated motion of the whole. Bentley called?
- What is shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root called?
- What is spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells called?
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