a. [f. as TURBINATE a. + -ED1.]
1. Top-shaped, top-like; spec. in Nat. Hist. whorled, = TURBINATE a.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 215. It is equall, smooth, and turbinated, that is, broad at the basis or bottom, and growing smaller.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., 122. Turbinated; consisting of a cone-like cavity, rouled up in a spiral.
a. 1706. Evelyn, Sylva, II. i. (1776), 274. The Wild or Bastard-Pine and Teda … bearing a turbinated cone.
1759. Johnson, Idler, No. 56, ¶ 6. An irregular contortion of a turbinated shell.
1800. Phil. Trans., XC. 434. The turbinated bones are in the same relative situation to the other parts of the skull as in quadrupeds.
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), I. 387. [The placenta] its form is now turbinated.
1840. E. Wilson, Anat. Vade M. (1842), 33. 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, Dis. Throat & Nose, II. 233. There are always three turbinated bones, and frequently a fourth.
† 2. Of motion: Like that of a top; gyrating, rotary, whirling. Obs.
1665. Hooke, Microgr., lx. 246. [Gravitation] does not depend upon the diurnal or turbinated motion of the Earth.
1692. Bentley, Boyle Lect., iv. 125. Let Mechanism here … produce a spiral and turbinated motion of the whole moved Body without an external director.
