English > sea turtle: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas. |
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| Synonym | marine turtle |
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| Narrower | green turtle, Chelonia mydas | large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup |
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| 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 |
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| Spanish | tortuga de mar, tortuga marina |
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| Catalan | tortuga de mar, tortuga marina |
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