cootern.

/ˈkuːtə/

Etymology: Compare coot v.¹

A popular name in the Southern United States of two tortoises, the Common or Carolina Box-turtle ( Cistudo carolina), and the ‘Florida Cooter’ ( Chrysemys concinna), family Testudinidæ.

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1827 Massachusetts Spy 22 Aug. A few jolly topers, who wallowed in the sand, ‘as drunk as a cooter’.

1835 W. G. Simms Partisan 308 You're turned now..on the flat of your back like a yellow-belly cooter.

1884 F. W. True in G.B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 155 Pseudemys concinna, the ‘Florida Cooter’, is found in all the Southern States.

1884 F. W. True in G.B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 158 The Carolina Box Turtle..In the southern States it is known as the ‘Pine-barren Terrapin’, and is also called ‘Cooter’ by the negroes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cooter
释义	cootern. /ˈkuːtə/ Etymology: Compare coot v.¹ A popular name in the Southern United States of two tortoises, the Common or Carolina Box-turtle ( Cistudo carolina), and the ‘Florida Cooter’ ( Chrysemys concinna), family Testudinidæ. ΚΠ 1827 Massachusetts Spy 22 Aug. A few jolly topers, who wallowed in the sand, ‘as drunk as a cooter’. 1835 W. G. Simms Partisan 308 You're turned now..on the flat of your back like a yellow-belly cooter. 1884 F. W. True in G.B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 155 Pseudemys concinna, the ‘Florida Cooter’, is found in all the Southern States. 1884 F. W. True in G.B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 158 The Carolina Box Turtle..In the southern States it is known as the ‘Pine-barren Terrapin’, and is also called ‘Cooter’ by the negroes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : coutercootern. < n.1827 see also
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