A sea turtle with an olive-brown shell, often living close to the coast and extensively hunted for food.
Chelonia mydas, family Cheloniidae
 Example sentencesExamples
-  Large numbers of green turtles were harvested throughout the Hawaiian Islands through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
 -  Beaches in sections of Florida's highly developed coastline are nesting ground for rare loggerhead, leatherback and green turtles.
 -  Unlike many other species of turtles, green turtles are unable to retract their head into their shell.
 -  Eight of the 10 beaches are used by hawksbill turtles and one by green turtles.
 -  The green turtle is primarily a tropical herbivorous species and feeds on sea grasses and algae.