ridley

IPA: rˈɪdɫi

Any of the marine turtles of the genus Lepidochelys, found in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
A surname from Old English.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A female given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.
A number of places:
A small settlement and civil parish (served by Bulkeley and Ridley Parish Council) in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5554).
A hamlet in Ash-cum-Ridley parish, Sevenoaks district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ6163).
A hamlet in Bardon Mill parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY7963).
A township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Examples of "ridley" in Sentences

Greenpeace to see exclusive olive ridley turtles video shared by DPCL:
One species, Kemp's ridley, has its only nesting grounds in the world on the beaches of the western Gulf.
Four of those – green, hawksbill, leatherback and Kemp's ridley – are considered endangered, or at risk of becoming extinct.
"Maybe the Kemp's ridley because it's located only in the Gulf of Mexico," Mr. Cousteau said, referring to one of the rarest of sea turtles.
Few other creatures embody this ghastly state of affairs as poignantly as the olive ridley turtles, which just completed their hatching cycle.
EM crowe is an amazing actor. and i have faith in ridley scott, so i'm pretty intereted in seeing this. interesting casting, but i have no problems with it
Biswaranjan Rout/Associated Press HELPING HAND: A boy helped a newly hatched olive ridley turtle enter the sea at a beach in Ganjam district in Odisha, India, Tuesday.
This diving olive ridley sea turtle (above), from Mark Laita's collection of underwater images, 'Sea,' (Abrams, 200 pages, $50) , is a tolerant lord unworried by intrusion on his demesne.
"In the three beaches we've taken care of," Mr. Cousteau reported, "we've been able to collect 200,000 eggs from endangered species," among them the Green, Olive ridley , Leatherback and Eastern Pacific Hawksbill.