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MARINE TURTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does marine turtle mean? 

MARINE TURTLE (noun)
  The noun MARINE TURTLE has 1 sense:

1. any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seasplay

  Familiarity information: MARINE TURTLE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MARINE TURTLE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

marine turtle; sea turtle

Hypernyms ("marine turtle" is a kind of...):

turtle (any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marine turtle"):

Chelonia mydas; green turtle (large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup)

Caretta caretta; loggerhead; loggerhead turtle (very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas)

ridley (a marine turtle)

Eretmochelys imbricata; hawkbill; hawksbill; hawksbill turtle; tortoiseshell turtle (pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell)

Dermochelys coriacea; leatherback; leatherback turtle; leathery turtle (wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle)


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