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chicken turtles

chicken turtles is the plural of chicken turtle.

Meaning of chicken turtle

Noun

chicken turtle (plural chicken turtles)

  1. An uncommon freshwater turtle, of species Deirochelys reticularia, found in the southeast of the United States, similar in appearance to the eastern painted turtle (Chrysemys picta picta), but with an unusually long, striped neck, a yellow stripe on each of its legs and a net-like pattern on its carapace.
    • ‘I've a chicken-turtle, which promises well—the first I've received this season, from what I call my West-Indian farm […].’1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 81

Questions about chicken turtles

What is chicken turtles the plural of?
Chicken turtles is the plural of chicken turtle.

Words near chicken turtles in the dictionary

  1. chicken throne
  2. chicken thrones
  3. chicken tractor
  4. chicken tractors
  5. chicken turtle
  6. chicken turtles
  7. chicken under a brick
  8. chicken Wellington
  9. chicken Wellingtons
  10. chicken wing
  11. chicken winged

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