tortoise
Noun
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Usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs;
Worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica (synset 101672733)is a type of: turtle - any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimmingsubtypes:- european tortoise, testudo graeca - small land tortoise of southern Europe
- giant tortoise - very large tortoises of the Galapagos and Seychelles islands
- gopher, gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, gopherus polypemus - burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
- desert tortoise, gopherus agassizii - burrowing tortoise of the arid western United States and northern Mexico; may be reclassified as a member of genus Xerobates
- texas tortoise - close relative to the desert tortoise; may be reclassified as a member of genus Xerobates
belongs to: family testudinidae, testudinidae - land tortoises
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