Definitions for turbinate

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turbinate tur·bi·nate

Spelling: [tur-buh-nit, -neyt]

IPA: /ˈtɜr bə nɪt, -ˌneɪt/

Turbinate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 494 anagrams from letters in turbinate (abeinrttu).

Definitions for turbinate

noun

1. a turbinate shell.
2. Also called nasal concha. Anatomy. a turbinate bone.

adjective

1. Also, turbinated. having the shape of an inverted cone; scroll-like; whorled; spiraled.
2. Anatomy. of or relating to certain scroll-like, spongy bones of the nasal passages in humans and other vertebrates.
3. inversely conical.

Origin of turbinate

1655-65; Latin turbinātus shaped like a top, equivalent to turbin- (stem of turbō a top; see turbine) + -ātus -ate<

Examples for turbinate

Achenes short, turbinate to linear; pappus simple, of numerous unequal bristles.

Bulb four or five inches in diameter, six or seven inches in depth, turbinate, sometimes nearly fusiform.

Fruit very small, turbinate, covered with brownish-gray russet, and a brownish cheek next the sun.

Sporangia varying from globose to pyriform or turbinate, supported on a more or less elongated stipe.

Fruit medium, turbinate, light yellow turning to lemon-yellow, striped with bright red; good; Sept. and beginning of Oct.

turbinate: Shaped like a whipping-top; whorled from a broad base to an apex.

Fruit small, globular, turbinate; skin covered with rough, russet dots.

turbinate or top-shaped, and pyriform or pear-shaped, are especially applicable to pears, and seldom to apples.

Whose vertical section is turbinate, and horizontal circular.