soft-shelled turtle in British English
noun
any freshwater turtle of the family Trionychidae, having a flattened soft shell consisting of bony plates covered by a leathery skin
soft-shelled turtle in American English
US
any of a family (Trionychidae) of aquatic turtles of North America, Asia, and Africa, with a soft, oval, leathery shell; esp., a North American genus (Trionyx) common in the Mississippi drainage
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