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单词 terrapin shell
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terrapin shell
C1. General attributive, as terrapin meat, terrapin shell, terrapin tank, etc.
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1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 110 Torrepine-shells containing pebbles.
1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific ix. 110 I put to it some terrapin meat.
1863 W. H. Russell My Diary North & South I. xxx. 339 The terrapin soup excellent, though not comparable..to the best turtle.
1957 C. R. Meyer Animal Weapons (National Audubon Soc. Nature Program) 4 Beach rats eat terrapin eggs and young only to be hunted in turn by the slim-footed blue herons.
2004 T. Guest My Life in Orange (2005) vi. 84 The terrapin tank with its lone inhabitant, Terry, basking above the waterline on the tank's single rock.
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