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Testudinata

noun

tortoises and turtles

• Syn: ↑Chelonia, ↑order Chelonia, ↑order Testudinata, ↑Testudines, ↑order Testudines

• Derivationally related forms: ↑chelonian (for: ↑Chelonia)

• Hypernyms: ↑animal order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Anapsida, ↑subclass Anapsida

• Member Meronyms:

↑chelonian, ↑chelonian reptile, ↑Cheloniidae, ↑family Cheloniidae, ↑Chelonidae, ↑family Chelonidae, ↑Dermochelyidae, ↑family Dermochelyidae, ↑Chelydridae, ↑family Chelydridae, ↑Kinosternidae, ↑family Kinosternidae, ↑Emydidae, ↑family Emydidae, ↑Testudinidae, ↑family Testudinidae, ↑Trionychidae, ↑family Trionychidae

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\(ˌ) ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈäd.ə, -ˈād.ə\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Testudin-, Testudo + -ata

: an order or other division of Reptilia comprising the turtles and tortoises and being distinguished by a trunk more or less enclosed in a shell of bony dermal plates that is usually covered externally with horny shields and in nearly all cases firmly united with some of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum, and by jaws that are toothless and sheathed

Useful english dictionary. 2012.