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sea-tortoise
A marine tortoise or turtle. Also Comb. sea-tortoise-shell.
[1398Trevisa Barth De P.R. xviii. cviii. (1495) 850 The see Tortuca etyth all thynge and his mouth is stronger than any other beestes mouth.] 1601Holland Pliny xi. xxxvii. I. 339 The sea-Tortoise hath neither tongue nor teeth. 1681Grew Musæum iii. §i. i. 260 The spaces betwixt which [rows], are cancellated much after the manner of the Sea-Tortoiseshell. 1698Fryer Acc. E. Ind. & P. 122 A Sea-Tortoise was brought to the Fort, in length Six Feet. 1750G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds IV. 206 The Sea-Tortoise is commonly call'd by our Sea-Captains Turtle. 1881Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. (1895) II. 237 A terrapin is..a small turtle or sea-tortoise. |