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古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Turbinated
(a.)
Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large
base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.
Turbination
(n.)
The act of spinning or whirling, as a top.
Turbine
(n.)
A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed,
but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which
the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward
from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above
downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.
Turbinella
(n.)
A genus of large marine gastropods having a thick heavy
shell with conspicuous folds on the columella.
Turbinite
(n.)
A petrified shell resembling the genus Turbo.
Turbinoid
(a.)
Like or pertaining to Turbo or the family Turbinidae.
Turbit
(n.)
The turbot.
Turbit
(n.)
A variety of the domestic pigeon, remarkable for its short
beak.
Turbite
(n.)
A fossil turbo.
Turbith
(n.)
See Turpeth.
Turbo
(n.)
Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or
family Turbinidae, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the
inside, and a calcareous operculum.
Turbot
(n.)
A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed
as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color
on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered
over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also
bannock fluke.
Turbot
(n.)
Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less
related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder
(see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta
guttulata) of California.
Turbot
(n.)
The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda.
Turbot
(n.)
The trigger fish.
Turbulence
(n.)
The quality or state of being turbulent; a disturbed
state; tumult; disorder; agitation.
Turbulency
(n.)
Turbulence.
Turbulent
(a.)
Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent
commotion; as, the turbulent ocean.
Turbulent
(a.)
Disposed to insubordination and disorder; restless;
unquiet; refractory; as, turbulent spirits.
Turbulent
(a.)
Producing commotion; disturbing; exciting.