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Webster 1913 Edition

turbo

tur′bo

,

Noun.

[L.

turbo

,

-inis

, a top. See

.]

(Zool.)

Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus

Turbo

or family

Turbinidae

, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum.