The Collaborative International Dictionary
Turbinate \Tur"bi*nate\, Turbinated \Tur"bi*na`ted\, a. [L. turbinatus, turbo, turben, -inis, a whirl, top.]
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Whirling in the manner of a top.
A spiral and turbinated motion of the whole.
--Bentley. (Bot.) Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root.
(Anat.) Turbinal.
(Zo["o]l.) Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.
Wiktionary
a. turbinate in shape.
Usage examples of "turbinated".
Grove describes a necrosed inferior turbinated bone, to which was attached a coffee-grain which had been retained in the nostril for twenty years.
Testaceous turbinated exanguious animals—and before you ask, I have subdivided them into those with, and without, spiral convolutions.