TEXAS TORTOISE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Close relative to the desert tortoise; may be reclassified as a member of genus Xerobates

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Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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

genus Gopherus; Gopherus (gopher tortoises)

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