turbinate

Adjective
  1. Of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages (synset 302830285)
  2. In the shape of a coil (synset 302325276)
    similar to: coiled - curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals)
    same as: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled
Noun
  1. Any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates (synset 105291315)
    is a type of: bone, os - rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
    subtypes: nasal concha - one of several turbinate bones in the nasal cavity
    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
    same as: turbinal, turbinate bone

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