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Sea turtle

noun

Any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas. Synonym: marine turtle.

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"Sea turtle" Quotes from Famous Books

... Domingo of our day—and separated from it only by a narrow channel of some five or six miles in width, lies a queer little hunch of an island, known, because of a distant resemblance to that animal, as the Tortuga de Mar, or sea turtle. It is not more than twenty miles in length by perhaps seven or eight in breadth; it is only a little spot of land, and as you look at it upon the map a pin's head would almost cover it; yet from that spot, as from a center of inflammation, a burning fire of ...

— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard I. Pyle

Words linked to "Sea turtle" : green turtle, Caretta caretta, hawksbill turtle, marine turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, loggerhead, hawksbill, leatherback, Chelonia mydas, turtle, leatherback turtle, loggerhead turtle, tortoiseshell turtle, leathery turtle, hawkbill, ridley, Eretmochelys imbricata