| 单词 | mud turtle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmud turtle mud turtle n. a freshwater turtle that frequently climbs out on to muddy banks; esp. any of several small turtles of the American family Kinosternidae, which have scent glands that produce an unpleasant smell; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > member of family Trionychidae (soft-shell) mud turtle1756 softshell turtle1804 soft tortoise1821 mud terrapin1829 softshell1830 softback1832 Trionyx1835 potamian1851 1756 P. Collinson Let. 20 Jan. in W. D. Darlington Memorials J. Bartram & H. Marshall (1849) 201 The great Mud Turtle..is really a formidable animal. He bit very fierce at a stick. He had near bit my finger. 1796 Aurora (Philadelphia) 17 May The crocodile throats of the gentle snappers or mud tortles in the Jersey market. 1857 D. H. Strother Virginia Illustr. (1871) i. i. 32 ‘Looks more like he was embalmed,’ cried another. ‘A mummy! or a mud-turtle lying on his back!’ 1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age 48 He's in that pilot-house now, showing those mud-turtles how to hunt for easy water. 1915 J. Conrad Victory vii. 135 Fancy a mud-turtle like you trying to pass an opinion on a gentleman! 1990 T. C. Boyle East is East i. 140 He..saw the cooters and mud turtles line up like dominoes on a log beneath him. < as lemmas |
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