Overview of noun turbinate

The noun turbinate has 1 sense

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

Overview of adj turbinate

The adj 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)