turtleish

Adjective

turtleish (comparative more turtleish, superlative most turtleish)

1. Resembling or reminiscent of turtles.
   • Imagining the Negro as filth, his mouth as symbolizing the female genital, it is worth remarking how many correspondences relate those thoughts to the poem about the mud turtle (a creature of chiefly Southern associations anyhow, like that turtleish-looking white TV editorialist in Virginia, who L...1965, Howard Nemeroc, Journal of the Fictive Life, Rutgers University Press, page 167
   • Paleontologists believe that the evolutionary link between the ancient cotylosaur, the stem reptile from which all reptiles originated, and the present-day turtle may be Eunotosaurus africanus. The 250-million-year-old bones of this turtleish creature are so poorly preserved that scientists cannot...1996, Lisa Knopp, Field of Vision, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, page 62
   1. Slow
      • Advanced burlesque, even, wouldn't have him for a house manager; why should the very real business of photodrama tolerate his turtleish inefficiency?1915 November, ““CLOSE-UPS””, in Photoplay Magazine, volume 8, number 6, page 51
      • Servings are a good size and the food tastes about as close to homecooked as you'll find in C.H. Service is turtleish and there's often a crowd, but it’s worth the wait.1975, The Franklin Street Gourmet, Chapel Hill, N.C: SCAU, page 3