| 单词 | water tortoise |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater tortoise water tortoise n. now rare any of various freshwater turtles or terrapins of the families Emydidae and Pelomedusidae; esp. the helmeted turtle or marsh terrapin, Pelomedusa subrufa, of Africa. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Pleurodira > member of family Pelomedusidae (water tortoise) water tortoise1658 1658 J. Rowland Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 793 There are found great store of these in India, especially of the Water-tortoises. 1835 A. Smith Diary 11 Mar. (1939) I. 309 Water has been getting more scarce every year. They eat the water tortoise. 1911 State Dec. 643 There were berg tortoises, and vlakte tortoises and zandkruipers and even water tortoises. 1974 Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. X. 527/1 In Southern Africa there are both land and water tortoises. < as lemmas |
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