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- English Word Turbillion Definition A whirl; a vortex.
- English Word Turbinaceous Definition Of or pertaining to peat, or turf; of the nature of peat, or turf; peaty; turfy.
- English Word Turbinal Definition 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.
- English Word Turbinal Definition A turbinal bone or cartilage.
- English Word Turbinate Definition To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl.
- English Word Turbinate Definition Alt. of Turbinated
- English Word Turbinated Definition Whirling in the manner of a top.
- English Word Turbinated Definition Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root.
- English Word Turbinated Definition Turbinal.
- English Word Turbinated Definition Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.
- English Word Turbination Definition The act of spinning or whirling, as a top.
- English Word Turbine Definition 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.
- English Word Turbinella Definition A genus of large marine gastropods having a thick heavy shell with conspicuous folds on the columella.
- English Word Turbinite Definition A petrified shell resembling the genus Turbo.
- English Word Turbinoid Definition Like or pertaining to Turbo or the family Turbinidae.
- English Word Turbit Definition The turbot.
- English Word Turbit Definition A variety of the domestic pigeon, remarkable for its short beak.
- English Word Turbite Definition A fossil turbo.
- English Word Turbith Definition See Turpeth.
- English Word Turbo Definition Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidae, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum.