marine_turtle (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *marine turtle*:
NOUN	animal	marine turtle, sea turtle	any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers

English > *marine turtle*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	Any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas.
Synonym	sea turtle
Narrower	green turtle, Chelonia mydas	large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup
	hawksbill turtle, hawksbill, hawkbill, tortoiseshell turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata	pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak
	leatherback turtle, leatherback, leathery turtle, Dermochelys coriacea	wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace
	loggerhead, loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta	Very large carnivorous sea turtle
	ridley	A marine turtle
Broader	turtle	Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming / swimming
Spanish	tortuga de mar, tortuga marina
Catalan	tortuga de mar, tortuga marina

HyperDic: marine_turtle