Same as turbinate.n. In zoology and anatomy:n. A turbinate bone; one of the spongy or scroll-like bones of the nasal passages specified as ethmoturbinal, maxilloturbinal, and sphenoturbinal (see the distinctive names). See turbinate, and the phrases there.n. In the Ophidia, a bone of the skull different from . See the quotation, and cut under Pythonidæ.