adj
Meaning 1
Shaped or spinning like a top (spinning top).
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Standard Lemma guide
turbinate
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adj
Meaning 2
In the shape of a coil.
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adj
Meaning 3
Spiral and decreasing sharply in diameter from base to apex.
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
Examples
- a turbinate shell
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adj
Meaning 4
Of, or relating to, the turbinate bone.
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Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
A turbinal or turbinate bone.
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Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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verb
Meaning 6
To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl.
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adjective
Meaning 7
of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages
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adjective satellite
Meaning 8
in the shape of a coil
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Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled
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noun
Meaning 9
any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates
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Synonyms: turbinate bone, turbinal
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Broader terms: bone, os
Narrower terms: nasal concha
History
Etymology
From Latin turbinatus.
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: конусовиден (konusoviden) — shaped or spinning like a top
- Finnish: hyrrämäinen — shaped or spinning like a top
- Bulgarian: спираловиден (spiraloviden) — shaped like a coil
- Finnish: kierukkamainen — shaped like a coil
- Finnish: kierretty — shaped like a coil
- Finnish: kierteinen — zoology: spiral and decreasing sharply in diameter
- Spanish: cornete — zoology: spiral and decreasing sharply in diameter