tortoise
IPA: tˈɔrtʌs
noun
- Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly Canada, US) or the order Testudines (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India), whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.
- Synonym of cat (sense 10, a wheeled shelter)
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Examples of "tortoise" in Sentences
- The desert tortoise is an herbivore.
- You have to define the size of the tortoise.
- Tortoises mate in the spring and in the fall.
- The colossal tortoise is noticed by Ælian (De Nat.
- Of course the two articles refer to the same tortoise.
- It is one of the northern mansions of the Black Tortoise.
- He will then sniff the cloacal region of the other tortoise.
- In Chinese traditional religion, the tortoise is an oracular animal.
- Lloyds 'Turtle Wins the Race Sometimes the tortoise is the best bet.
- The hare challenged the tortoise to a race and the tortoise accepted.
- Firstly, tortoises and turtles are regarded as insufficiently virile.
- For the Chinese, as well as the Indians, the tortoise symbolizes the universe.
- The giant tortoise is indigenous to the Galapagos Islands, and is also endangered.
- The terrestrial kinds are commonly known as tortoise while water dwelling ones may be called terrapins.
- Timothy the tortoise is a splendid social critic, a keen-eyed anthropologist who sees far beyond his shell.
- Billy Williams, the tortoise's owner, says he's had Roger since the tortoise was the size of a tennis ball.
- Clemens said that heretofore Neptune, the planetary outpost of our system, had been called the tortoise of the skies, but that comparatively it was rapid in its motion, and had become a near neighbor.
- I like when it's darker, "said Ms. Kamali dressed in tortoise cat-eye sunglasses, a black blouse and ruched skirt (her own designs) with" creepy "Ann Demeulemeester-esque lace-up boots she said cost $60.
- "When the shell first became a matter of commerce, it was supposed that the turtle and the tortoise were the same, and the name tortoise being much older than turtle, the former appellation remained in designating the shell."
- Turtles. 102 -- The tortoises, more commonly called by our Indians the turtles, are of three sorts: the hawksbill, whose shell is that which we call the tortoise shell; the green turtle, whose flesh is good to eat; the third kind is called the loggerhead turtle, and neither its shell nor its flesh is of worth.
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