TURTLE

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Meaning:

Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("turtle" is a kind of...):

chelonian; chelonian reptile (a reptile of the order Chelonia)

Meronyms (parts of "turtle"):

carapace; cuticle; shell; shield (hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles)

plastron ((zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "turtle"):

marine turtle; sea turtle (any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas)

snapping turtle (large aggressive freshwater turtle with powerful jaws)

mud turtle (bottom-dwelling freshwater turtle inhabiting muddy rivers of North America and Central America)

terrapin (any of various edible North American web-footed turtles living in fresh or brackish water)

Pseudemys rubriventris; red-bellied terrapin; red-bellied turtle; redbelly (freshwater turtle of Chesapeake Bay tributaries having red markings on the lower shell)

Pseudemys scripta; slider; yellow-bellied terrapin (freshwater turtle of United States and South America; frequently raised commercially; some young sold as pets)

cooter; Pseudemys concinna; river cooter (large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico)

box tortoise; box turtle (chiefly terrestrial turtle of North America; shell can be closed tightly)

Chrysemys picta; painted terrapin; painted tortoise; painted turtle (freshwater turtles having bright yellow and red markings; common in the eastern United States)

tortoise (usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica)

pancake turtle; soft-shelled turtle (voracious aquatic turtle with a flat flexible shell covered by a leathery skin; can inflict painful bites)