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tyrse rare. ? Obs.
Also thirsé.
[Properly tirsé (Forskål, 1775), tyrsé (G. Saint-Hilaire and Cuvier), ad. Arab. tirsah, f. turs shield.]
The Egyptian soft-billed turtle, Testudo triunguis.
1807Hunter tr. Sonnini's Trav. in Egypt I. 301 The advantage with which this thirsé of the Egyptians and Nubians wages war with the crocodile. 1834McMurtrie Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 171 T. ægyptiacus... The Tyrse. 1839Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) XIX. 132/2 The Egyptian species or tyrse, the soft turtle of the Nile. |