Turbinate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Shaped like a top.
  • adj. Spinning like a top.
  • adj. Zoology Spiral and decreasing sharply in diameter from base to apex. Used especially of shells.
  • adj. Anatomy Of, relating to, or designating a small curved bone that extends horizontally along the lateral wall of the nasal passage in higher vertebrates.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Shaped or spinning like a top.
  • adj. In the shape of a coil.
  • adj. Spiral and decreasing sharply in diameter from base to apex. Used especially of shells.
  • adj. Of, or relating to, the turbinate bone.
  • n. A turbinal or turbinate bone.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl.
  • adj. Whirling in the manner of a top.
  • adj. Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex.
  • adj. Turbinal.
  • adj. Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A turbinate body.
  • Shaped like a whipping-top.
  • In anatomy, whorled or scroll-like in shape; turbinal; spongy in texture, or full of cavities: applied to certain bones and parts of bones in the nasal fossæ.
  • Whirling in the manner of a top.
  • To fashion like a top.
  • To revolve like a top; spin; whirl.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates
  • adj. in the shape of a coil
  • adj. of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages
    • Equivalent
    coiled    turbinated   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    whirl    turbinal    coiling    helical    whorled   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    well-gnawed    aitch    tuberosity    fibu-lar    trembly   
     
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