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testudinoids

testudinoids is the plural of testudinoid.

Meaning of testudinoid

Noun

testudinoid (plural testudinoids)

  1. Any turtle of the superfamily Testudinoidea.
    • The terrestrial mode of food uptake differs dramatically among and within the three testudinoid subgroups (see Bels, Davenport & Delheusy, 1997 ; Bels et al., 2008 ; Summers et al., 1998 ; Wochesländer, Hilgers & Weisgram, 1999 ; Natchev et al., 2009, present study).2015, Nikolay Natchev et al., “Feeding behaviour in a ‘basal’ tortoise provides insights on the transitional feeding mode at the dawn of modern land turtle evolution”, in PeerJ, volume 3, →DOI

Questions about testudinoids

What is testudinoids the plural of?
Testudinoids is the plural of testudinoid.

Words near testudinoids in the dictionary

  1. testudineous
  2. testudines
  3. testudinid
  4. testudinids
  5. testudinoid
  6. testudinoids
  7. testudinous
  8. testudo
  9. testudoes
  10. testudos
  11. testule

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