Dictionary 1. (a.) Rolled in a spiral; scroll-like; turbinate; -- applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers.2. (n.) A turbinal bone or cartilage. Thesaurus ambagious circuitous circumlocutory cochlear cochleate convoluted convolutional corkscrew corkscrewy flexuose flexuous helical helicoid involute involuted involutional labyrinthine mazy meandering meandrous rivose rivulose roundabout ruffled screw-shaped scrolled serpentine sinuate sinuose sinuous snaky spiral spiroid torsional tortile tortuous turbinal turbinate turning twisting twisty verticillate volute voluted whorled winding wreathlike wreathy |