GIANT TORTOISE

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Meaning:

Very large tortoises of the Galapagos and Seychelles islands

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Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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

genus Testudo; Testudo (type genus of the Testudinidae)

genus Geochelone; Geochelone (giant tortoises)

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