Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Top-shaped; turbiniform; spirally coiled, wreathed, or whorled, as the turns of a shell.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to Turbo or the family Turbinidæ.

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  • adjective zoology Like or relating to Turbo or the family Turbinidae.

Etymologies

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See turbo and -oid.

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