英语词汇“hawk's-bill turtle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. (Also hawk's-bill turtle.) A species of turtle, Chelone imbricata, having a mouth resembling the beak of a hawk, inhabiting the Indian Ocean and the warmer parts of the Atlantic, and furnishing the tortoiseshell of commerce. Also hawkbill n.

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Cheloniidae > member of genus Eretmochelys (hawk's-bill)

hawk's-bill turtle1657

whooping turtle1712

hawkbilla1757

tortoiseshell turtle1886

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 4 The Loggerhead Turtle, and the Hawks bill Turtle, of which sorts, the latter is the best.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 103 The Hawksbill Turtle is the least kind; they are so called because their mouths..[resemble] the Bill of a Hawk: On the backs of these Hawksbill Turtle grows that Shell which is so much esteem'd for making Cabinets, Combs [etc.].

1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 20 There is Plenty of Tortoises, or Turtle, but not very good to eat, being a sort of Hawksbill.

1892 Chambers's Jrnl. 14 May 318/2 The thirteen plates of tortoise~shell on the carapace of the hawk's-bill tortoise.

单词	hawk's-bill turtle
释义	> as lemmas hawk's-bill turtle 1. (Also hawk's-bill turtle.) A species of turtle, Chelone imbricata, having a mouth resembling the beak of a hawk, inhabiting the Indian Ocean and the warmer parts of the Atlantic, and furnishing the tortoiseshell of commerce. Also hawkbill n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Cheloniidae > member of genus Eretmochelys (hawk's-bill) hawk's-bill turtle1657 whooping turtle1712 hawkbilla1757 tortoiseshell turtle1886 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 4 The Loggerhead Turtle, and the Hawks bill Turtle, of which sorts, the latter is the best. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 103 The Hawksbill Turtle is the least kind; they are so called because their mouths..[resemble] the Bill of a Hawk: On the backs of these Hawksbill Turtle grows that Shell which is so much esteem'd for making Cabinets, Combs [etc.]. 1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 20 There is Plenty of Tortoises, or Turtle, but not very good to eat, being a sort of Hawksbill. 1892 Chambers's Jrnl. 14 May 318/2 The thirteen plates of tortoise~shell on the carapace of the hawk's-bill tortoise. extracted from hawk's-billn. < as lemmas
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