Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun turbinate

1 sense of turbinate

Sense 1
turbinate bone, turbinate, turbinal -- (any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates)
       => bone, os -- (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Antonyms of adj turbinate

1 of 2 senses of turbinate

Sense 2
coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate -- (in the shape of a coil)

INDIRECT (VIA coiled) -> uncoiled, straight -- (no longer coiled)

Similarity of adj turbinate

2 senses of turbinate

Sense 1
turbinate -- (of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages)

Sense 2
coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate -- (in the shape of a coil)
       => coiled (vs. uncoiled) -- (curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals); "a coiled snake ready to strike"; "the rope lay coiled on the deck")