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Turbinate   Listen
verb
Turbinate  v. i.  To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl. (R.)


adjective
Turbinated, Turbinate  adj.  
1.
Whirling in the manner of a top. "A spiral and turbinated motion of the whole."
2.
(Bot.) Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root.
3.
(Anat.) Turbinal.
4.
(Zool.) Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; said of certain shells.





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"Turbinate" Quotes from Famous Books



... most handsome of all pears, but does not last long. Marguerite Marillat (September) is large and handsome, so are B. Clairgeau, B. Sterkmans, B. Mortillet, Souvenir du Congres, B. Baltet Pere (very turbinate), B. Giffard, B. Hardy, ...
— The Book of Pears and Plums • Edward Bartrum
... is a turbinate hollow calyx, whose limb is divided into five serrated lobes; alternating with these latter, and springing from the throat of the calyx, are the petals. Originating from the same annular disk as ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters


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