2. Verb. (third-person singular of turtle) ¹
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Definition of Turtles
1. turtle [v] - See also: turtle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turtles
Literary usage of Turtles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"As, however, these turtles always resort to the locality where they were born,
or where they have been wont to propagate their kind,and as their capture is ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"turtles AND TURTLE - FARMING. Figs. 680,. By EA Andrews. Along the coasts of
America, four kinds of marine turtles lay their eggs in the sandy beaches, ..."
3. Water Reptiles of the Past and Present by Samuel Wendell Williston (1914)
"pelvis with the plastron below, which never occurs in other turtles, ...
The side-necked turtles are all of fresh-water habit, similar to that of the ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The soft-shell turtles are strictly aquatic, leaving the water habitually only
in the spring, when about 50 spherical hard-shelled white eggs arc deposited ..."
5. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1906)
"The following results of the author's recent studies of the fossil turtles of
North America appear to be worthy of immediate publication. ..."
6. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar by Georg Hartwig (1872)
"Tortoises and turtles: The Galapago Islands—The Elephantine Tortoise—Rate of
Traveling— Marsh Tortoises—Manufacture of Tortoise Oil—turtles on the ..."
7. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"turtles, Tortoises cad Terrapins, members of the reptilian order ... the largest
of all modern turtles, occasionally appears on our coast. ..."
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