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Turbinate

noun
1.
Any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates.  Synonyms: turbinal, turbinate bone.
adjective
1.
Of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages.
2.
In the shape of a coil.  Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled.



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... Turbinate: top-shaped; nearly conical: differs from pyriform in being shorter and more suddenly attenuated at base: applied to an eye ...
— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith


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