{ Tur″bi‐nate (?), Tur″bi‐na′ted (?), } a. [L. turbinatus, turbo, turben, -inis, a whirl, top.] 1. Whirling in the manner of a top.
A spiral and turbinated motion of the whole. Bentley.
2. (Bot.) Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root.
3. (Anat.) Turbinal.
4. (Zoöl.) Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; — said of certain shells.