Library / English Dictionary

RIDLEY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A marine turtle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("ridley" is a kind of...):

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

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

Atlantic ridley; bastard ridley; bastard turtle; Lepidochelys kempii (grey sea turtle of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America)

Lepidochelys olivacea; olive ridley; Pacific ridley (olive-colored sea turtle of tropical Pacific and Indian and the southern Atlantic oceans)

Holonyms ("ridley" is a member of...):

genus Lepidochelys; Lepidochelys (ridleys)

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