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EUROPEAN TORTOISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does European tortoise mean? 

EUROPEAN TORTOISE (noun)
  The noun EUROPEAN TORTOISE has 1 sense:

1. small land tortoise of southern Europeplay

  Familiarity information: EUROPEAN TORTOISE used as a noun is very rare.


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EUROPEAN TORTOISE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small land tortoise of southern Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

European tortoise; Testudo graeca

Hypernyms ("European tortoise" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("European tortoise" is a member of...):

genus Testudo; Testudo (type genus of the Testudinidae)


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