Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A turbinate formation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of turbinating, or the state of being turbinate.
- noun That which is turbinated; a whorled or scroll-like formation, as a shell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of spinning or whirling, as a top.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
spinning orwhirling .
Etymologies
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Compare Latin tirbinatio a pointing in the form of a cone. See turbinate.
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