English > turtle: 4 senses > noun 2, animal| Meaning | Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming / swimming. |
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| Parts | carapace, shell, cuticle, shield | Hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles |
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| plastron | (zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside |
| Narrower | box turtle, box tortoise | chiefly terrestrial / terrestrial turtle of North America |
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| cooter, river cooter, Pseudemys concinna | large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico |
| mud turtle | bottom-dwelling freshwater turtle inhabiting muddy rivers of North America and Central America |
| painted turtle, painted terrapin, painted tortoise, Chrysemys picta | Freshwater turtles having bright yellow and red markings |
| red-bellied terrapin, red-bellied turtle, redbelly, Pseudemys rubriventris | Freshwater turtle of Chesapeake Bay tributaries having red markings on the lower shell |
| sea turtle, marine turtle | Any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers |
| slider, yellow-bellied terrapin, Pseudemys scripta | Freshwater turtle of United States and South America |
| snapping turtle | large aggressive freshwater turtle with powerful jaws |
| soft-shelled turtle, pancake turtle | voracious aquatic turtle with a flat flexible shell covered by a leathery skin |
| terrapin | Any of various edible North American web-footed turtles living in fresh or brackish water |
| tortoise | usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs |
| Broader | chelonian, chelonian reptile | A reptile of the order Chelonia |
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| Spanish | galápago, peta, testudines, tortuga, tortugas |
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| Catalan | tortuga, tortugue, turtle |
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