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Turbinated   Listen
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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"Turbinated" Quotes from Famous Books



... Cells turbinate, distant. Opening directed more or less upwards. Mouth submarginal. Several ...
— Narrative Of The Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By The Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During The Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries And Surveys In New Guinea, The Louisiade • John MacGillivray
... gregarious, turbinate, short stipitate, blue-gray, about 1 mm. in diameter; peridium above iridescent, green, blue, etc., dotted with minute flecks of white, below limeless, purple or bronze shading to the brown of the stipe; stipe short, stout, slightly rugose, cylindric, non-calcareous, ...
— The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride


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