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turbinate

adjective

  1. shaped like a cone resting on its apex, as a molluskan shell
  2. shaped like a scroll or spiral; specif., designating or of any of certain spiral, spongy bones in the nasal passages

noun

  1. a turbinate shell
  2. a turbinate bone

See turbinate in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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