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Turbinate

noun
1.
Any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates.  Synonyms: turbinal, turbinate bone.
adjective
1.
Of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages.
2.
In the shape of a coil.  Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled.



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... 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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