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map turtle

map turtle noun: any freshwater turtle of genus Graptemys.

Noun

map turtle (plural map turtles)

  1. Any freshwater turtle of genus Graptemys

Forms of map turtle

pluralmap turtles

Words formed from map turtle

  • Graptemys barbouri Carr & Marchand
  • 1942
  • Graptemys caglei Haynes & McKown
  • 1974
  • Graptemys ernsti Lovich & McCoy
  • 1992
  • Graptemys flavimaculata Cagle
  • 1954
  • yellow-blotched sawback
  • Graptemys geographica
  • formerly known as the common map turtle
  • Graptemys gibbonsi Lovich & McCoy
  • Graptemys nigrinoda Cagle
  • Graptemys oculifera
  • Graptemys ouachitensis Cagle
  • 1953
  • Graptemys pearlensis Ennen
  • Lovich
  • Kreiser
  • Selman
  • Qualls
  • 2010
  • G. p. kohnii
  • G. p. pseudogeographica
  • Graptemys pseudogeographica
  • Graptemys pulchra Baur
  • 1893
  • Graptemys sabinensis Cagle
  • Graptemys versa Stejneger
  • 1925

Questions about map turtle

What does map turtle mean?
Map turtle means any freshwater turtle of genus Graptemys.
What part of speech is map turtle?
Map turtle is a noun.
What is the plural of map turtle?
The plural of map turtle is map turtles.

Words near map turtle in the dictionary

  1. map projection
  2. map projections
  3. map reading
  4. map room
  5. map seed
  6. map turtle
  7. map turtles
  8. map unit
  9. map units
  10. mapa
  11. Mapaang

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