marine turtle

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

marine turtle - any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seassea turtleturtle - any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimmingChelonia mydas, green turtle - large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soupCaretta caretta, loggerhead turtle, loggerhead - very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seasridley - a marine turtleEretmochelys imbricata, hawkbill, hawksbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle - pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshellDermochelys coriacea, leatherback, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle - wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle