| 单词 | pond tortoise |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspond tortoise pond tortoise n. = pond terrapin n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Emydidae (freshwater turtles) > member of (terrapin) river tortoise1601 river turtle1672 terrapin1672 skilly-pot1807 emys1843 pond tortoise1862 redbelly1877 slider1877 1862 E. Hitchcock & C. H. Hitchcock Elem. Geol. (new ed.) 336 Eighteen species of crocodiles in a fossil state have been found in the tertiary; also nineteen species of land tortoises, seventeen species of pond tortoises, [etc.]. 1884 F. W. True in G.B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 157 Three species of the genus Chrysemys, the Pond Tortoises, inhabit the United States. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xix. 522 The leatherback has its limbs turned into paddles.., and it is instructive to compare this thorough-going adaptation with the old-fashioned limbs of..the European pond-tortoises. 1997 Politiken Weekly 19 Feb. 1 The European pond tortoise was not supposed to have lived in the wild in Denmark for 3,000 years. < as lemmas |
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