turban : Idioms & Phrases

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turban squash

  • noun squash plants bearing hard-shelled fruit shaped somewhat like a turban with a rounded central portion protruding from the end opposite the stem
    Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis.
  • noun large squash shaped somewhat like a turban usually with a rounded central portion protruding from the blossom end
WordNet

turban-shell

Tur"ban-shell` noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.
Webster 1913

turban-top

Tur"ban-top` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A kind of fungus with an irregularly wrinkled, somewhat globular pileus (Helvella, ∨ Gyromitra, esculenta.).
Webster 1913

Turk's turban

  • (Bot.), a plant of the genus Ranunculus; crowfoot.
Webster 1913