Akademik

Caretta

noun

loggerhead turtles

• Syn: ↑genus Caretta

• Hypernyms: ↑reptile genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Cheloniidae, ↑family Cheloniidae, ↑Chelonidae, ↑family Chelonidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑loggerhead, ↑loggerhead turtle, ↑Caretta caretta

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\\kəˈred.ə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from French caret hawksbill turtle, from Spanish carey, from Taino

: a genus of marine turtles (family Chelonidae) comprising all the loggerhead turtles or in some classifications solely the common loggerhead (C. caretta)

Useful english dictionary. 2012.