noun
any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas
• Syn: ↑marine turtle
• Hypernyms: ↑turtle
• Hyponyms:
↑green turtle, ↑Chelonia mydas, ↑loggerhead, ↑loggerhead turtle, ↑Caretta caretta, ↑ridley, ↑hawksbill turtle, ↑hawksbill, ↑hawkbill, ↑tortoiseshell turtle, ↑Eretmochelys imbricata, ↑leatherback turtle, ↑leatherback, ↑leathery turtle, ↑Dermochelys coriacea
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noun, pl ⋯ turtles [count]
: a type of large turtle that lives in the sea
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= ↑turtle
Useful english dictionary. 2012.