Definition of Bastard turtle

1. Noun. Grey sea turtle of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America.

Exact synonyms: Atlantic Ridley, Bastard Ridley, Lepidochelys Kempii
Generic synonyms: Ridley

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastard Turtle

bastard feverfew
bastard indigo
bastard lignum vitae
bastard operator from hell
bastard operators from hell
bastard pennyroyal
bastard pimpernel
bastard ridley
bastard sugar
bastard sword
bastard swords
bastard title
bastard toadflax
bastard trumpeter
bastard trumpeters
bastard turtle (current term)
bastard wing
bastard wings
bastard yellowwood
bastarda
bastardies
bastarding
bastardisation
bastardisations
bastardise
bastardised
bastardiser
bastardisers
bastardises
bastardising

Literary usage of Bastard turtle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fishing by Horace Gordon Hutchinson (1904)
"These loggerheads are only fit food for the "spongers," and the bastard turtle is not much better, while the green ones, as becomes things really ..."

2. Costa Rica by Nelles Verlag Staff, Klaus Boll, Detlev Kirst, Ortrun Egelkraut (1999)
"In Ostional they concentrate on the bastard turtle, which lays its eggs between July and December, particularly on dark nights during the new moon in August ..."

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