单词 | turbinate |
释义 | turbinateadj.n. Natural History. A. adj. Resembling a spinning-top in shape; of a mollusc, having a spiral shell; in Botany spec. inversely conical; having a narrow tapering base and broad rounded apex; in Anatomy applied to the scroll-like spongy bones of the nasal fossæ in the higher vertebrates. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [adjective] > spiral or scroll-like turbinated1615 involute1661 turbinate1661 whorled1776 involuted1816 turbiniform1826 turbinaceous1842 inrolled1881 turbinal1883 the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [adjective] > top-shaped turbinal1584 turbinated1615 turbinate1661 the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > conical > obconic or pear-shaped turbinated1615 turbinate1661 pyriform1717 pear-shaped1731 top-shaped1776 obconical1799 obconic1819 pear drop1865 pyriformed1874 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A7v Fishes, which are..testaceous, and..turbinate, which are either involute, as the Nautilus,..murex,..or orbicular, as the Welke. a1706 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) ii. i. §1 [The larch tribe] Easily raised of the kernels and nuts, which may be gotten out of their polysperm and turbinate cones. 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 283 The largest, as well as the most beautiful of the turbinate kind. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. xxii. 224 The Pericarpium is..turbinate, Top-shaped, when it tapers towards the Base. 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 24 C[onus] Hebræus, Lin. Shell turbinate, coronate, white..the spire convex, obtuse. 1840 G. V. Ellis Demonstr. Anat. 244 Three convoluted portions of bone named spongy or turbinate bones, which project into the cavity. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 366 Leucojum æstivum..Fruit turbinate. B. n. 1. A turbinate shell. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > Testacea (shelled molluscs) > shelled mollusc turbo1661 univalve1668 scale-shell1713 turbinate1802 testacean1842 thorn-shell1860 stump1875 ecardine1878 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > family Turbinidae > shell of spur-shell1713 spur trochus1753 turbinate1802 1802 F. W. Blagdon tr. P. S. Pallas Trav. Southern Provinces Russ. Empire I. 70 A multitude of turbinates of the large kind, and especially whole strata, full of small striped turbinates. 2. A turbinate bone. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > bones of nose sieve-bone1594 ethmoid bone1657 labyrinth1678 vomer1704 ethmoid1732 turbinal1848 ethmoturbinal1853 mesethmoid1870 turbinate1873 mid-ethmoid1884 1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. iii. 84 That part of it immediately below the cribriform plate is called the upper spongy bone, or superior turbinate, or turbinal. 1903 Detroit Med. Jrnl. 733 (Cent. Dict. Suppl.) Cases of asthma treated by removal of the middle turbinate. Compounds The adjective modifying another adjective, as turbinate-lentiform, turbinate-truncate. ΚΠ 1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 355 Tympanis Fraxini,..cups subsessile, turbinate-truncate, shining, black. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † turbinatev. Obsolete. rare. 1. transitive. To fashion like a top; to make top-shaped. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > make into curved three-dimensional shape [verb (transitive)] > make top-shaped turbinate1721 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Turbinate, to fashion like a Top, to sharpen at one End. 2. intransitive. To turn or whirl like a top or a whirlwind. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] > spin spin1667 pirouette1741 pirl1791 turbinate1797 snoove1808 twizzlea1825 teetotum1831 teetotumize1841 purl1857 1797 E. Burke Three Mem. French Affairs 35 The Russian Government is..liable to be subverted by military seditions,..and sometimes by headlong rebellions of the people, such as the turbinating movement of Pugatchef. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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