Akademik

Pseudemys

noun

sliders; red-bellied terrapin

• Syn: ↑genus Pseudemys

• Hypernyms: ↑reptile genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Emydidae, ↑family Emydidae

• Member Meronyms:

↑red-bellied terrapin, ↑red-bellied turtle, ↑redbelly, ↑Pseudemys rubriventris, ↑slider, ↑yellow-bellied terrapin, ↑Pseudemys scripta, ↑cooter, ↑river cooter, ↑Pseudemys concinna

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\\“+\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from pseud- + Emys

: a genus of turtles (family Testudinidae) comprising the sliders and including several species used for food in the southeastern United States

Useful english dictionary. 2012.