TURBINATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does turbinate mean? 

• TURBINATE (noun)
  The noun TURBINATE has 1 sense:

1. any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates

  Familiarity information: TURBINATE used as a noun is very rare.

• TURBINATE (adjective)
  The adjective TURBINATE has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages

2. in the shape of a coil

  Familiarity information: TURBINATE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURBINATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

turbinal; turbinate; turbinate bone

Hypernyms ("turbinate" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "turbinate"):

nasal concha (one of several turbinate bones in the nasal cavity)

Holonyms ("turbinate" is a part of...):

nose; olfactory organ (the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals)

• TURBINATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

turbinate bone (any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In the shape of a coil

Synonyms:

coiling; helical; spiral; spiraling; turbinate; volute; voluted; whorled

Similar:

coiled (curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals))