单词 | box tortoise |
释义 | box tortoise (once / 1313257 pages) n WORD FAMILY box tortoise USAGE EXAMPLESThe box tortoise lives on shore among the pine-forest lands, away from water, to which it seems to have an especial dislike. Kingston, William Henry Giles, The Western World—Picturesque Sketc...(2010) Where turtle meat is bottled or canned, the snapping turtle and the common box tortoise are sometimes used as "substitutes." Hall, Bolton, Three Acres and Liberty(2010) n chiefly terrestrial turtle of North America; shell can be closed tightly Syn|Hypo|Hyper box turtle Terrapene ornata, Western box turtle primarily a prairie turtle of western United States and northern Mexico turtle any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming |
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