ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ATE + -ED.] Furnished with a turret or turrets, turreted: spec. in Conch. = TURRETED 2 b, TURRITED. Also Turriculate a.
1822. J. Parkinson, Outl. Oryctol., 155. A longish turriculated univalve. Ibid., 250. The multilocular turriculated shells of the genus Turriculites.
1834. H. M’Murtrie, Cuvier’s Anim. Kingd., 255. A shell with a turriculated spire.
1843. Penny Cycl., XXVI. 444/2. Mitra.… Turriculate species, with large spiral whorls, the aperture effuse anteriorly.
