turbinate
IPA: tˈɝbɪneɪt
noun
- (anatomy) A turbinal or turbinate bone.
verb
- To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl.
adjective
- Shaped or spinning like a top (spinning top).
- In the shape of a coil.
- (zoology) Spiral and decreasing sharply in diameter from base to apex.
- (anatomy) Of, or relating to, the turbinate bone.
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Examples of "turbinate" in Sentences
- Twikanrozex sucked the last liquid from the bottom of his nearly empty turbinate.
- This shell, as already has been said, may have one valve, or two valves, or be turbinate.
- Those with turbinate shells may, indeed, after a certain fashion be said to resemble bivalves.
- Purpuras and Whelks, and all other Testacea that have turbinate shells, in structure resemble the Sea-snail.
- But some North Texans are finding instant relief in a quick, relatively inexpensive office procedure called turbinate coblation.
- For there are those with turbinate shells, of which some have just been mentioned; and, besides these, there are bivalves and univalves.
- The human gnawed on a stratified pulpy compaction called a sandwich, while Pilwondepat chewed jheru - flavored food pellets and sipped from his turbinate juice bottle.
- For here the two extremities are brought together by a curve, as if one were to bend the straight line marked E until D came close to Such, then, is the disposition of the internal parts; and round these, in the Cephalopoda, is placed the sac (in the Poulps alone called a head), and, in the Testacea, the turbinate shell which corresponds to the sac.
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