TURBINATE; TURBINATED Tur"bi*nate, Tur"bi*na`ted, a. Etym: [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.)
Defn: 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.)
Defn: Turbinal.
4. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; — said of certain shells.
TURBINATION Tur`bi*na"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. L. tirbinatio a pointing in the form of a cone. See Turbinate.]
Defn: The act of spinning or whirling, as a top.