单词 | chelonian reptile |
释义 | chelonian reptile (once / 5909656 pages) n WORD FAMILY chelonian reptile n a reptile of the order Chelonia Syn|Hypo|Hyper chelonian turtle any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming marine turtle, sea turtleany of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas snapping turtlelarge aggressive freshwater turtle with powerful jaws mud turtlebottom-dwelling freshwater turtle inhabiting muddy rivers of North America and Central America terrapinany of various edible North American web-footed turtles living in fresh or brackish water Pseudemys rubriventris, red-bellied terrapin, red-bellied turtle, redbellyfreshwater turtle of Chesapeake Bay tributaries having red markings on the lower shell Pseudemys scripta, slider, yellow-bellied terrapinfreshwater turtle of United States and South America; frequently raised commercially; some young sold as pets Pseudemys concinna, cooter, river cooterlarge river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico box tortoise, box turtlechiefly terrestrial turtle of North America; shell can be closed tightly Chrysemys picta, painted terrapin, painted tortoise, painted turtlefreshwater turtles having bright yellow and red markings; common in the eastern United States tortoiseusually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica pancake turtle, soft-shelled turtlevoracious aquatic turtle with a flat flexible shell covered by a leathery skin; can inflict painful bites anapsid, anapsid reptile primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles |
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