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CHELONIA MYDAS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Chelonia mydas mean?
• CHELONIA MYDAS (noun)
The noun CHELONIA MYDAS has 1 sense:
1. large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup
Familiarity information: CHELONIA MYDAS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Chelonia mydas; green turtle
Hypernyms ("Chelonia mydas" is a kind of...):
marine turtle; sea turtle (any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas)
Holonyms ("Chelonia mydas" is a member of...):
Chelonia; genus Chelonia (green turtles)
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