GREEN TURTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does green turtle mean? 

• GREEN TURTLE (noun)
  The noun GREEN TURTLE has 1 sense:

1. large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREEN TURTLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Chelonia mydas; green turtle

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

marine turtle; sea turtle (any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas)

Holonyms ("green turtle" is a member of...):

Chelonia; genus Chelonia (green turtles)