To pursue or capture turtles; make a practice or business of taking turtles.

noun. A turtle-dove.

noun. A tortoise; any chelonian or testudinate; any member of the Chelonia or Testudinata (see the technical names); especially, a marine tortoise, provided with flippers; absolutely, the green turtle, as Chelonia midas (see cut below), highly esteemed for soup. See cuts referred to under tortoise, also cuts under Aspidonectes, Eretmochelys, periotic, Pleurospondylia, slider, and stinkpot.

noun. The detachable segment of the cylinder of a rotary printing-machine which contains the types or plates to be printed: so called from its curved surface.

noun. (See also alligator-turtle, land turtle, mud-turtle, sea-turtle, snapping-turtle.)

noun. Any one of the numerous species of Testudinata, especially a sea turtle, or chelonian.

noun. The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.

noun. etc. See under Alligator, Box, etc.

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noun. a marine turtle of the genus Chelonia, having usually a smooth greenish or olive-colored shell. It is highly valued for the delicacy of its flesh, which is used especially for turtle soup. Two distinct species or varieties are known; one of which (Chelonia Midas) inhabits the warm part of the Atlantic Ocean, and sometimes weighs eight hundred pounds or more; the other (Chelonia virgata) inhabits the Pacific Ocean. Both species are similar in habits and feed principally on seaweed and other marine plants, especially the turtle grass.

noun. a large, handsome cowrie (Cypræa testudinaria); the turtle-shell; so called because of its fancied resemblance to a tortoise in color and form.

noun. a marine plant (Thalassia testudinum) with grasslike leaves, common about the West Indies.

noun. tortoise shell. See under Tortoise.

noun. The turtledove.

noun. A turtle dove.

noun. Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body.

noun. A sea turtle.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.

noun. The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.

verb. To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.

verb. To turn and swim upside down.

verb. To hunt turtles, especially in the water.

verb. To build up a large defense force and strike only punctually, rather than going for an offensive strategy.

verb. hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation

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

noun. a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar

verb. overturn accidentally

"When I entered "Shark, dolphin, sea turtle" yesterday it returned a bogus phylogeny: [sea turtle+[shark+dolphin]]."

bastard turtle  box turtle  chelonian  chicken-turtle  diamond-backed turtle  

box turtle  

T-shirt  hunt  hunt down  jersey  jumper  

Myrtle  fertile  hurtle  infertile  mirtle  

alligator  crab  deer  dolphin  duck  

turtled  turtles  turtling