| 单词 | bastard turtle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbastard turtle bastard turtle n. now chiefly historical Kemp's ridley turtle, Lepidochelys kempii.Once popularly supposed to be the offspring of a green turtle ( Chelonia mydas) and a loggerhead ( Caretta caretta). ΚΠ 1880 S. W. Garman in Bull. Mus. Compar. Zoöl. Harvard 6 i. 123 Richard M. Kemp..directed my attention to a peculiar Turtle, commonly called the ‘Bastard’, found in the Gulf of Mexico, and said to be a cross between the Green and Loggerhead.] 1880 S. W. Garman in Bull. Mus. Compar. Zoöl. Harvard 6 i. 123 Thalassochelys Kempii sp. nov.... The Bastard Turtle are common... They come on the beach to lay in the months of December, January, and February. 1946 Herpetologica 3 39 The bastard turtle, as it is called, is seldom brought to market since it is not considered fit for food. 2007 F. R. Davis Man who saved Sea Turtles iii. 51 Carr [in 1942] also raised the point that the common name of the species in the genus Lepidochelys should be switched from the bastard turtle to the ridley turtle, as fishermen and turtle hunters along the Gulf Coast commonly referred to it. < as lemmas |
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