Turbinal(a.) Rolled in a spiral; scroll-like; turbinate; -- applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers.
Turbinal(n.) A turbinal bone or cartilage.
Turbinate(a.) Alt. of Turbinated
Turbinate(v. i.) To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl.
Turbinated(a.) Whirling in the manner of a top.
Turbinated(a.) Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root.
Turbinated(a.) Turbinal.
Turbinated(a.) Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.
Turbination(n.) The act of spinning or whirling, as a top.
Turbine(n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.
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