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Webster 1913 Edition
Turbinated
{
Tur′bi-nate
,Tur′bi-naˊted
, }Adj.
[L.
turbinatus
, fr. turbo
, turben
, turbinis
, 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 root3.
(Anat.)
Turbinal.
4.
(Zool.)
Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; – said of certain shells.