Turbinate; Turbinated

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Whirling in the manner of a top. A spiral and turbinated motion of the whole. Bentley.

2. Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root.

3. Turbinal.

4. Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.