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Any species of marine tortoise; also extended to various other tortoises. (Plural turtles, collectively usually turtle.)
a large herbivorous sea turtle, Chelonia mydas (family Cheloniidae), found in all tropical and subtropical seas and noted for its green-coloured fat.
A kind of turtle. ? Obsolete.