单词 | tortoise |
释义 | tortoise (once / 2074 pages) n WORD FAMILY tortoise: tortoises USAGE EXAMPLESAs Las Vegas sought to expand, local, state and federal managers agreed to protect species such as the imperiled desert tortoise in Gold Butte. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) Emerson, a Galapagos tortoise at the Toledo Zoo in Ohio, whose age is estimated at about 100. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) The hand-sized tortoise is fine and back home with his owner, a teacher. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) n usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica Hypo|Hyper European tortoise, Testudo graeca small land tortoise of southern Europe giant tortoisevery large tortoises of the Galapagos and Seychelles islands Gopherus polypemus, gopher, gopher tortoise, gopher turtleburrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America Gopherus agassizii, desert tortoiseburrowing tortoise of the arid western United States and northern Mexico; may be reclassified as a member of genus Xerobates Texas tortoiseclose relative to the desert tortoise; may be reclassified as a member of genus Xerobates turtle any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming |
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