单词 | soft tortoise |
释义 | > as lemmassoft tortoise ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > member of family Trionychidae (soft-shell) mud turtle1756 softshell turtle1804 soft tortoise1821 mud terrapin1829 softshell1830 softback1832 Trionyx1835 potamian1851 1821 W. S. MacLeay Horæ Entomologicæ ii. v. 254 The coriaceous skin of the Sepiæ is very analogous to that of the soft tortoises. 1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 256 The Trionycides. The Mud or Soft Tortoises. 1909 Nature 30 Sept. 402/1 Muriel Robertson describes the lifecycle of a new trypanosome from Ceylon, of which the principal host is the soft tortoise. < as lemmas |
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