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turbinated, a.|ˈtɜːbɪneɪtɪd| [f. as turbinate a. + -ed1.] 1. Top-shaped, top-like; spec. in Nat. Hist. whorled, = turbinate a.
1615Crooke Body of Man 215 It is equall, smooth, and turbinated, that is, broad at the basis or bottom, and growing smaller. 1668Wilkins Real Char. 122 Turbinated; consisting of a cone-like cavity, rouled up in a spiral. a1706Evelyn Sylva ii. i. (1776) 274 The Wild or Bastard-Pine and Teda..bearing a turbinated cone. 1759Johnson Idler No. 56 ⁋6 An irregular contortion of a turbinated shell. 1800Phil. Trans. XC. 434 The turbinated bones are in the same relative situation to the other parts of the skull as in quadrupeds. 1835Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 387 [The placenta] its form is now turbinated. 1840E. Wilson Anat. Vade M. (1842) 38 The inferior Turbinated or spongy Bone is a thin layer of loose and spongy bone, slightly curled upon itself, and projected inwards from the inner wall of the Nares. 1884M. Mackenzie Dis. Throat & Nose II. 233 There are always three turbinated bones, and frequently a fourth. †2. Of motion: Like that of a top; gyrating, rotary, whirling. Obs.
1665Hooke Microgr. lx. 246 [Gravitation] does not depend upon the diurnal or turbinated motion of the Earth. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 125 Let Mechanism here..produce a spiral and turbinated motion of the whole moved Body without an external director. |