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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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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