Adjective turbinate has 2 senses
- turbinate - of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages
- coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate - in the shape of a coil
Antonyms: uncoiled, straight (indirect, via coiled)
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Noun turbinate has 1 sense
- turbinate bone, turbinate, turbinal - any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates
--1 is a kind of bone, os
--1 is a part of nose, olfactory organ
--1 has particulars: nasal concha
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