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• The first lyre may have been made by drawing strings over the underside of a tortoise shell.From the entry shell
• A sea turtle's paddles make it swim almost as fast as land tortoises are slow.From the entry paddle
• People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, when in fact they are different creatures.From the entry lump
• People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, but in fact they are different creatures.From the entry lump together
• A girl strokes a Hermann’s tortoise in a flat in Paris.2018 May 25, Eric Hilaire, The Guardian. From the entry Hermann's tortoise
• In contrast, meningitis was seen in two out of the three tortoises infected with TeHV3 genogroup B.2015 August 6, “A Genomic Approach to Unravel Host-Pathogen Interaction in Chelonians: The Example of Testudinid Herpesvirus 3”, in PLOS…. From the entry perivasculitis
• Others have named this "tortoise mind" as intuition, or the unconscious, and the id.2010, Fons Trompenaars, Charles Hampden-Turner, Riding the Waves of Innovation. From the entry undermind
• More wrinkles than a tortoise, face like a bag of spanners.2009, Ron Clooney, A Measure of Wheat for a Penny, page 275. From the entry face like a bag of spanners
• Thus, the lungs of all turtles, tortoises, monitor lizards, and crocodiles are multicameral lungs.1989, D. B. Wake, G. Roth, Complex Organismal Functions: Integration and Evolution in Vertebrates. From the entry multicameral
• The tortoise infected with the bona fide recombinant TeHV3 strain had inclusions in the tongue and developed pneumonia.2015 August 6, “A Genomic Approach to Unravel Host-Pathogen Interaction in Chelonians: The Example of Testudinid Herpesvirus 3”, in PLOS…. From the entry perivasculitis
• Finally, a tortoise turns the tables on the inkalimeva.2006, Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, Ndumiso Bhotomane, South African Voices: A Long Time Passed, volume 1, page 139. From the entry inkalimeva
• The suaku (literally "mountain tortoise" and figuratively "country bumpkin") sports a beer belly, fake brand-name apparel and oil-slick hair.1986, “New Books”, in Asiaweek, volume 12, page 60. From the entry suaku
• A family from Knebworth has been left shell-shocked by the return of their beloved tortoise, more than eight months after she went missing.2022 July 13, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 961, page 71. From the entry shell-shocked
• Ah Lian are not simply lowly educated, they also have supposedly 'pre-modern' or sua-ku (hill tortoise, metaphor for 'backward') modes of behaviour.2003, Beng Huat Chua, Life is Not Complete Without Shopping: Consumption Culture in Singapore, →ISBN, page 88. From the entry suaku
• It is convenient to divide the testudines into three groups, which will be referred to as the tortoises, the terrapins, and the turtles.1969, Douglas J. Short, The I.A.T. manual of laboratory animal practice and techniques. From the entry testudine
• He was not afraid now; tortoises do not fight unless attacked, and the boy could easily outswim any of the clumsy creatures.1917, Florence Partello Stuart, The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy. From the entry outswim
• Reptile categories were (1) turtles and tortoises, (2) typhlopid and xenotyphlopid snakes, (3) lamprophiid snakes, (4) iguanid lizards, (5) geckos, (6) skinks, (7) gerrhosaurids, and (8) chameleons.2016 January 7, “Spatial Biodiversity Patterns of Madagascar's Amphibians and Reptiles”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry xenotyphlopid
• “Only in Madagascar,” the labels proudly proclaim, next to descriptions of animals like the spiny-tail iguana, the radiated tortoise or a small bird, the red fody.2008 June 20, Edward Rothstein, “Critters of a Wondrous Isle, Meet Your Friend and Foe”, in New York Times. From the entry fody
• He lives in a muddy ditch in the north of England, but is currently on a yoga holiday in Outer Mongolia with his tortoise animal companion.2004 March-April, Nora Ludd, “Bashing Bayer in Britain!”, in Earth First! The Radical Environmental Journal, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2. From the entry Outer Mongolia
• There also is the potential to disturb or destroy specific sites used by such species as the western diamond back rattlesnake, spade foot toad, and the desert tortoise.1973, United States Dept. of the Interior, Final Environmental Statement for the Geothermal Leasing Program. From the entry spade foot
• The tortoise, possessing, like the serpent, the power of retaining life in its limbs after mutilation or decapitation, became a symbol of androgynity as well as of immortality.1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the…. From the entry decapitation
• His head protruded out of his torn collar much as the head of the tortoise protrudes from its shell, the throat unwrinkling, the eyes like beads, or pips of jet.1959, Mervyn Peake, chapter 66, in Titus Alone, New York: Ballantine, published 1968, page 179. From the entry unwrinkle
• Such a creature has just passed away peacefully in London, in the person of Drake, a venerable tortoise of the Zoological Gardens, supposed to be nearly four hundred years old.1906 July 28, The Literary Digest, volume XXXIII, number 4, New York, N.Y., page 113. From the entry quadricentenarian

Meaning of tortoise

1. noun Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly Canada, US) or the order Testudines (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India), whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.
2. noun Synonym of cat (sense 11, a wheeled shelter).

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How do you use tortoise in a sentence?

Tortoise is used as a noun. For example: “The first lyre may have been made by drawing strings over the underside of a tortoise shell.”

What is a short sentence with tortoise?

“Finally, a tortoise turns the tables on the inkalimeva.”

What does tortoise mean?

Tortoise means any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly Canada, US) or the order Testudines (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India), whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.