n. [ L. turbo, -inis, a top. See Turbine. ] (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sontaining or using a turbine; -- a combining form; as, turbojet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Turbine, and Generator. ] An electric generator or dynamo which is combined on one frame with a turbomotor, by which it is driven. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F.; -- probably so named from its shape, and from L. turbo a top, a whirl. ] (Zool.) (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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spotted turbot. See Windowpane. [ 1913 Webster ]