Word.ws English Dictionary

tortoiseshell bracket

tortoiseshell bracket is the alternative form of tortoise shell bracket.

Meaning of tortoise shell bracket

Noun

tortoise shell bracket (plural tortoise shell brackets)

  1. Either of a pair of symbols,〔 〕, sometimes used in Japanese to enclose comments in quoted text.

Forms of tortoiseshell bracket

pluraltortoiseshell brackets

Questions about tortoiseshell bracket

What is tortoiseshell bracket the alternative form of?
Tortoiseshell bracket is the alternative form of tortoise shell bracket.

Words near tortoiseshell bracket in the dictionary

  1. tortoise-shell bamboos
  2. tortoise-shells
  3. tortoiselike
  4. tortoises
  5. tortoiseshell
  6. tortoiseshell bracket
  7. tortoiseshell brackets
  8. tortoiseshell cat
  9. tortoiseshell cats
  10. tortoiseshells
  11. Tortola

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tortoiseshell bracket (page history and authors); tortoise shell bracket (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tortoiseshell bracket.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tortoiseshell_bracket. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.