Definition of "turbinated" []

• Turbinate in shape. (adjective)

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• "The nostrils, however, are much wider, about as wide from wing to wing, as the white man's mouth from corner to corner, and the internal bones, called the turbinated, on which the olfactory nerves are spread, are larger and project nearer to the opening of the nostrils than in the white man."
• "But the Cephalopoda and the turbinated Testacea have in common an arrangement which stands in contrast with this."
• "But the general plan of their body is that of the Cephalopoda; and, though this is true in a certain degree of all the Testacea, it is more especially true of those turbinated species that have a spiral shell."