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English noun: tortoise

1. tortoise (animal) usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica


Broader (hypernym)turtle


Narrower (hyponym)desert tortoise, European tortoise, giant tortoise, gopher, gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, Gopherus agassizii, Gopherus polypemus, Testudo graeca, Texas tortoise


Member meronymfamily Testudinidae, Testudinidae









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