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Cooter :: Cooter (n.) A fresh-water tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida.

Ellachick :: Ellachick (n.) A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food.

Testudo :: Testudo (n.) A kind of musical instrument. a species of lyre; -- so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise..

Thalassian :: Thalassian (n.) Any sea tortoise.

Testudinal :: Testudinal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tortoise..

Cooter :: Cooter (n.) The box tortoise.

Plastron :: Plastron (n.) The ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles. See Testudinata.

Snail :: Snail (n.) A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo..

Testudinarious :: Testudinarious (a.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a tortoise; resembling a tortoise shell; having the color or markings of a tortoise shell.

Toise :: Toise (a.) An old measure of length in France, containing six French feet, or about 6.3946 French feet..

Stinkstone :: Stinkpot (n.) The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See under Musk..

Testudo :: Testudo (n.) A genus of tortoises which formerly included a large number of diverse forms, but is now restricted to certain terrestrial species, such as the European land tortoise (Testudo Graeca) and the gopher of the Southern United States..

Egg :: Egg (n.) The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the white or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane..

Trionyx :: Trionyx (n.) A genus of fresh-water or river turtles which have the shell imperfectly developed and covered with a soft leathery skin. They are noted for their agility and rapacity. Called also soft tortoise, soft-shell tortoise, and mud turtle..

Testudinated :: Testudinated (a.) Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted.

Hawkbill :: Hawkbill (n.) A sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), which yields the best quality of tortoise shell; -- called also caret..

Lammergeier :: Lammergeier (n.) A very large vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them

Chelonian :: Chelonian (a.) Of or pertaining to animals of the tortoise kind.

Shell :: Shell (n.) The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like..

Shell :: Shell (n.) An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell..

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