Turbinoid
(Tur"bi*noid) a. [See Turbo, and -oid.] (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to Turbo or the family Turbinidæ.
Turbit
(Tur"bit) n. [Cf. Turbot.]
1. (Zoöl.) The turbot.
2. (Zoöl.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, remarkable for its short beak.
Turbite
(Tur"bite) n. (Paleon.) A fossil turbo.
Turbith
(Tur"bith) n. [F., fr. Per. See Turpeth.] See Turpeth.
Turbo
(Tur"bo) n. [L. turbo, - inis, a top. See Turbine.] (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous marine gastropods
of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidæ, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous
operculum.
Turbot
(Tur"bot) n. [F.; — probably so named from its shape, and from L. turbo a top, a whirl.] (Zoöl.)
(a) 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. (b) 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. (c) The
filefish; — so called in Bermuda. (d) The trigger fish.
Spotted turbot. See Windowpane.
Turbulence
(Tur"bu*lence) n. [L. turbulentia: cf. F. turbulebce.] The quality or state of being turbulent; a
disturbed state; tumult; disorder; agitation. Shak.
The years of . . . warfare and turbulence which ensued.
Southey. Syn. — Agitation; commotion; tumult; tumultuousness; termagance; unruliness; insubordination; rioting.
Turbulency
(Tur"bu*len*cy) n. Turbulence.
What a tale of terror now its turbulency tells!
Poe. Turbulent
(Tur"bu*lent) a. [L. turbulentus, fr. turba disorder, tumult: cf. F. turbulent. See Turbid.]
1. Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean.
Calm region once,
And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
Milton. 2. Disposed to insubordination and disorder; restless; unquiet; refractory; as, turbulent spirits.
Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit.
Dryden. 3. Producing commotion; disturbing; exciting.
Whose heads that turbulent liquor fills with fumes.
Milton. Syn. — Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; riotous; seditious; insubordinate; refractory; unquiet.
Turbulently
(Tur"bu*lent*ly), adv. In a turbulent manner.
Turcism
(Tur"cism) n. A mode of speech peculiar to the Turks; a Turkish idiom or expression; also, in
general, a Turkish mode or custom.
