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TORTOISE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tortoise" 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 "tortoise"):

European tortoise; Testudo graeca (small land tortoise of southern Europe)

giant tortoise (very large tortoises of the Galapagos and Seychelles islands)

gopher; gopher tortoise; gopher turtle; Gopherus polypemus (burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America)

desert tortoise; Gopherus agassizii (burrowing tortoise of the arid western United States and northern Mexico; may be reclassified as a member of genus Xerobates)

Texas tortoise (close relative to the desert tortoise; may be reclassified as a member of genus Xerobates)

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

family Testudinidae; Testudinidae (land tortoises)

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