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Definition of Testudinidae

1. Noun. Land tortoises.

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Literary usage of Testudinidae

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1. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1891)
"In the testudinidae, or true ... E In half-grown testudinidae the ... all testudinidae (land and fresh-water) which I have examined, with the single ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"India and Eurasia: Trionychidae and testudinidae. ... testudinidae are cosmopolitan, excluding Australia, and practically also the Antilles; ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"India and Eurasia: Trionychidae and testudinidae. ... testudinidae are cosmopolitan, excluding Australia, and practically also the Antilles; and Testudo is ..."

4. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1901)
"... few testudinidae, does not come into consideration; Asia has at least testudinidae and Trionychidae, and in addition the solitary Pluty sternum in ..."

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