单词 | loggerhead tortoise |
释义 | > as lemmasloggerhead tortoise a. (Also loggerhead turtle, †loggerhead tortoise.) A species of turtle, Thalassochelys caretta. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Cheloniidae > member of genus Caretta (loggerhead) loggerhead turtle1657 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 4 The Loggerhead Turtle. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 103 There are 4 sorts of Sea-turtle... The Loggerhead is so called, because it hath a great Head. 1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. ii. 30 On the 24th we caught a large loggerhead tortoise. 1842 T. Hood Turtles in New Monthly Mag. June 273 Poor loggerheads from far Ascension ferried! 1884 Girl's Own Paper Feb. 227/1 A rarer kind [of tortoise-shell] is derived from the loggerhead turtle, a native of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. 1895 Royal Nat. Hist. V. 83 The third, and probably the largest species of turtle, is the loggerhead (Thalassochelys caretta), easily recognised by its enormous head. 1895 Royal Nat. Hist. V. 84 The Mexican loggerhead (T. kempi), from the Gulf of Mexico, differs in [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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