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

