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turbinated - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'turbinated' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Turbinated [ a.]
- Whirling in the manner of a top.
- Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root.
- Turbinal.
- Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.