sea turtle
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Any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers;
Widely distributed in warm seas (synset 101666042)is a type of: turtle - any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimmingsubtypes:- chelonia mydas, green turtle - large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup
- caretta caretta, loggerhead, loggerhead turtle - very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas
- ridley - a marine turtle
- eretmochelys imbricata, hawkbill, hawksbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle - pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell
- dermochelys coriacea, leatherback, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle - wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle
same as: marine turtle
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