Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like a top.
- adjective Spinning like a top.
- adjective Zoology Spiral and decreasing sharply in diameter from base to apex. Used especially of shells.
- adjective Anatomy Of, relating to, or designating a small curved bone that extends horizontally along the lateral wall of the nasal passage in mammals and birds.
- noun Anatomy A turbinate bone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped like a whipping-top.
- In anatomy, whorled or scroll-like in shape; turbinal; spongy in texture, or full of cavities: applied to certain bones and parts of bones in the nasal fossæ.
- Whirling in the manner of a top.
- To fashion like a top.
- To revolve like a top; spin; whirl.
- noun A turbinate body.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl.
- adjective Whirling in the manner of a top.
- adjective (Bot.) Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex.
- adjective (Anat.) Turbinal.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Shaped or spinning like a
top . - adjective In the shape of a
coil . - adjective zoology Spiral and decreasing sharply in diameter from base to apex. Used especially of shells.
- adjective anatomy Of, or relating to, the
turbinate bone . - noun anatomy A
turbinal orturbinate bone .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates
- adjective in the shape of a coil
- adjective of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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But some North Texans are finding instant relief in a quick, relatively inexpensive office procedure called turbinate coblation.
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For here the two extremities are brought together by a curve, as if one were to bend the straight line marked E until D came close to Such, then, is the disposition of the internal parts; and round these, in the Cephalopoda, is placed the sac (in the Poulps alone called a head), and, in the Testacea, the turbinate shell which corresponds to the sac.
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The human gnawed on a stratified pulpy compaction called a sandwich, while Pilwondepat chewed jheru - flavored food pellets and sipped from his turbinate juice bottle.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Twikanrozex sucked the last liquid from the bottom of his nearly empty turbinate.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Twikanrozex sucked the last liquid from the bottom of his nearly empty turbinate.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Those with turbinate shells may, indeed, after a certain fashion be said to resemble bivalves.
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For there are those with turbinate shells, of which some have just been mentioned; and, besides these, there are bivalves and univalves.
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Purpuras and Whelks, and all other Testacea that have turbinate shells, in structure resemble the Sea-snail.
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This shell, as already has been said, may have one valve, or two valves, or be turbinate.
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The human gnawed on a stratified pulpy compaction called a sandwich, while Pilwondepat chewed jheru - flavored food pellets and sipped from his turbinate juice bottle.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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