tur·bi·nate /ˈtɝbənət, ˌnet/
 (a.)陀螺狀的;倒圓錐形的


 tur·bi·nate /ˈtɝbənət, ˌnet/ 形容詞
 甲介形的,鼻甲,鼻甲的,陀螺狀的,倒圓錐形的,甲介骨的,像陀螺旋轉的


 Tur·bi·nate v. i. To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl. [R.]

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 Tur·bi·nate Tur·bi·na·ted a.
 1. Whirling in the manner of a top.
    A spiral and turbinated motion of the whole.   --Bentley.
 2. Bot. Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root.
 3. Anat. Turbinal.
 4. Zool. Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.

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 turbinate
      adj 1: of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the
             nasal passages
      2: in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical, spiral,
          spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled]
      n : any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in
          man and other vertebrates [syn: turbinate bone, turbinal]