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Wikipedia has an article on: Turtle A sea turtle.

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Etymology 1

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Noun

Singular turtle

Plural turtles

turtle (plural turtles)

  1. A land or marine reptile having a protective shell (made up of a carapace and a plastron) enclosing its body.
  2. (Australian, British) A sea turtle.
  3. (military) An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.
  4. (computing) A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
  5. (computing) An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
    • 1997, Brian Harvey, Computer Science Logo Style: Symbolic computing
      Depending on which version of Logo you have, the turtle may look like an actual animal with a head and four legs or — as in Berkeley Logo — it may be represented as a triangle.
Derived terms
terms derived from turtle in the above senses
  • African helmeted turtle
  • Afro-American sideneck turtle
  • Alabama red-bellied turtle
  • alligator turtle, alligator-turtle
  • American turtle
  • Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles
  • Arakan forest turtle
  • Australian short-necked turtle
  • Austro-American sideneck turtle
  • awkward turtle
  • bastard turtle
  • big-headed turtle
  • black marsh turtle
  • black turtle bean
  • Blanding's turtle
  • bog turtle
  • box turtle, box-turtle
  • chicken turtle, chicken-turtle
  • common snakeneck turtle
  • cooter turtle
  • diamond-backed turtle
  • dragon turtle
  • eastern long-neck turtle
  • Fitzroy River turtle
  • flatback turtle
  • Florida redbelly turtle
  • Fly River turtle
  • golden coin turtle
  • gopher turtle
  • greaved turtle
  • Greenland turtle
  • turtledom
  • turtle-egging
  • turtle excluder device
  • turtle-footed
  • turtle-frolic
  • turtle graphics
  • turtle grass, turtle-grass
  • turtle-head, turtlehead
  • turtle hull
  • turtle-insect
  • turtle-kraal
  • turtle neck, turtle-neck, turtleneck
  • turtle peg, turtle-peg
  • turtle-press
  • turtler
  • turtle racing
  • turtles all the way down
  • turtle shell
  • turtle ship
  • turtle soup
  • turtle stone
  • turtle-shell
  • turtle-soup
  • turtle-stone
  • turtlet
  • turtle trade
  • turtle-twine
  • turtling
  • turtly
  • water turtle
  • western swamp turtle
  • wood turtle
Translations
land or marine reptile with a shell
  • Korean: 거북 (keobuk), 바다거북 (padageobuk)
  • Latin: testudo la(la) f.
  • Lithuanian: vėžlys lt(lt) m.
  • Macedonian: желка mk(mk) (žélka) f.
  • Malay: penyu ms(ms)
  • Navajo: chʼééh digháhii
  • Norwegian (bokmål): skilpadde f./m.
  • Norwegian (nynorsk): skjelpadde f.
  • Persian: لاک‌پشت (lâke pusht)
  • Polish: żółw pl(pl) m.
  • Portuguese: tartaruga pt(pt) f.
  • Rapanui: honu
  • Romanian: broască ţestoasă f.
  • Russian: черепаха ru(ru) (čerepaχa) f.
  • Scottish Gaelic: crùban-coille gd(gd) m., sligeanach gd(gd) m.
  • Serbian:
    Cyrillic: корњача sr(sr) f.
    Roman: kornjača f.
  • Slovene: želva sl(sl) f.
  • Spanish: tortuga f., peta f. (Bolivia)
  • Swahili: kasa sw(sw)
  • Swedish: sköldpadda sv(sv)
  • Tagalog: pagong pawikan
  • Tamil: ஆமை (Amai)
  • Telugu: తాబేలు (taabaelu)
  • Thai: เต่า (tàò)
  • Turkish: kaplumbağa tr(tr), tosbağa tr(tr)
  • Ukrainian: черепаха uk(uk) (čerepaχa) f.
  • West Frisian: skylpod fy(fy)

See also

Etymology 2

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Noun

Singular turtle

Plural turtles

turtle (plural turtles)

  1. (archaic) A turtle dove.
Derived terms
terms derived from turtle in the above senses
  • turtleish, turtlish
  • turtleise, turtlise, turtleize, turtlize
Translations
turtle dove — see turtle dove

 

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