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terrapin1|ˈtɛrəpɪn|
Forms: 7 (torope), tarapine, 7–9 terrapine, 8 torrepine, terebin, 8–9 tarapin, 9 terrapene, terapin, tarrapin, 8– terrapin.
[Of Algonquin origin; torope represented the Abenaki turepé (also tourepé) in Rasles Abenaki Dict. rendered ‘tortue’, in Delaware tulpe. The origin of the final -in, -ine is obscure.]
a. A name originally given to one or more species of North American turtles; thence extended to many allied species of the turtle and tortoise family, Testudineæ, widely distributed over North, Central, and South America, the East Indies, China, N. Africa, and other countries. In N. America, spec. the diamond-backed terrapin or saltmarsh terrapin, Malaclemmys palustris, famous for its delicate flesh.
Among other well-known American species are the red-bellied terrapin, Pseudemys rugosa, the alligator terrapin or snapping-turtle, Chelydra serpentina, and the pine-barren terrapin, Box-turtle, or Gopher, Cistudo carolina. The Catalogue of Animals in the London Zoological Gardens, 1896, contains thirty-three species of Terrapin, with distinctive appellations, as Caspian terrapin, Ceylonese terrapin, Floridan terrapin, Spanish terrapin, annulated terrapin, black-headed terrapin, ocellated terrapin, painted terrapin, roofed terrapin, speckled terrapin, wrinkled terrapin, Bennett's terrapin, Blanding's terrapin, Maw's terrapin, Oldham's terrapin, Spengler's terrapin. These are distributed in fifteen genera.
1613A. Whitaker Gd. Newes fr. Virginia 42, I have caught with mine angle pike, carpe, eele,..creafish, and the torope or little turtle. 1672J. Josselyn New Eng. Rarities 34 The Turtle that lives in Lakes and is called in Virginia a Terrapine. 1672J. Lederer Discov. 4 Every Nation gives his particular ensigne or arms, the Sasquesahanaugh a tarapine or small tortoise. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Terrapine, a word used among the Virginians for that which we commonly call a Tortoise, and many call a Turtle,..the Lake Turtle which lives in Lakes,..is that most properly called the Terrapine. 1714J. Lawson Hist. Carolina 133 Of terebins there are divers sorts, all which..we will comprehend under the distinction of land and water terebins. 1722Beverley Virginia iii. iv. §15. 151 A small kind of Turtle, or Tarapins (as we call them). Ibid. iv. xix. §80. 265 Snakes, Terrapins, and such like Vermine. 1764Smollett Trav. xix. (1766) I. 302 The land-turtle, or terrapin, is much better known at Nice, as being a native of this country. 1844P. Parley's Ann. V. 115 The growth of the terrapene is very slow. 1854Owen Skel. & Teeth in Orr's Circ. Sc. I. Org. Nat. 217 The Australian long-necked terrapene (Hydraspis longicollis). 1862Trollope N. Amer. I. 467 The terrapin is a small turtle, found on the shores of Maryland and Virginia, out of which a very rich soup is made. 1908Times 22 Feb. 13/3 Three-keeled terrapin..from Guatemala.
b. The flesh of this animal as food.
1867Dixon New Amer. (ed. 6) II. 335 Gentlemen sitting at table sipping soup, picking terapin. 1892F. M. Crawford Three Fates II. 139 He had eaten terrapin and canvas back off old Saxon China.
c. attrib. and Comb., as terrapin meat, terrapin shell, terrapin soup; terrapin-farm, a place where diamond-back terrapins are reared for the market; terrapin paws, a name, in Chesapeake Bay, for tongs used in capturing terrapins; Terrapin State, a colloquial name for the State of Maryland.
1775Adair Amer. Ind. 110 Torrepine-shells containing pebbles. 1845J. Coulter Adv. in Pacific ix. 110, I put to it some terrapin meat. 1862Russell Diary North & S. (1863) 340 The Terrapin soup excellent, though not comparable..to the best turtle. 1901H. Gadow in Camb. Nat. Hist. VIII. ix. 360 Enterprising men have established terrapin-farms or ‘crawls’ for the keeping and breeding of terrapins. 1937G. E. Shankle Amer. Nicknames 338/1 Maryland is nicknamed The Terrapin State because of the extensive diamondback terrapin farms. 1949B. A. Botkin Treas. S. Folklore i. ii. 35 Maryland has had half a dozen or more nicknames since colonial times, but only Old Line State and Terrapin State have any remaining vitality today. |