TURBINATE; TURBINATED

a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Whirling in the manner of a top. A spiral and turbinated motion of the whole. Bentley.

2.
a.

Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root.

3.
a.

Turbinal.

4.
a.

Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.


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