turbinatedadj.
/ˈtəːbɪneɪtɪd/ 1. Top-shaped, top-like; spec. in Natural History whorled, = turbinate adj.
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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
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 215 It is equall, smooth, and turbinated, that is, broad at the basis or bottom, and growing smaller.
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 122 Turbinated; consisting of a cone-like cavity, rouled up in a spiral.
a1706 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) ii. i. 274 The Wild or Bastard-Pine and Teda..bearing a turbinated cone.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 12 May 145 An irregular contortion of a turbinated shell.
1800 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 434 The turbinated bones are in the same relative situation to the other parts of the skull as in quadrupeds.
1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 387 [The placenta] its form is now turbinated.
1840 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum (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.
1884 M. Mackenzie Man. Dis. Throat & Nose II. 233 There are always three turbinated bones, and frequently a fourth.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > spinning
turbinated1665
spinning1854
top-like1895
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia lx. 246 [Gravitation] does not depend upon the diurnal or turbinated motion of the Earth.
1692 R. Bentley Confut. Atheism from Struct. & Origin Humane Bodies: Pt. II 19 Let Mechanism here..produce a spiral and turbinated motion of the whole moved Body without an external Director.
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