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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of, relating to, or belonging to the order Chelonia, which includes the turtles and tortoises.
  2. n. A reptile of the order Chelonia.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of, pertaining to, or having the characters of the Chelonia; testudinate.
  2. n. One of the Chelonia or Testudinata; a turtle or tortoise.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of, relating to, or belonging to the order Chelonia (Testudines), which includes the turtles and tortoises.
  2. n. A reptile of the order Chelonia (Testudines)

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to animals of the tortoise kind.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of or relating to or resembling or being a turtle or tortoise
  2. n. a reptile of the order Chelonia

Etymologies

  1. From New Latin Chelōnia, order name, from Greek khelōnē, tortoise. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “She was the oldest living chelonian and the only living creature to have met Charles Darwin and traveled aboard the Beagle.”

    Simon & Schuster: Steve and Me

  • “The “superb specimen of a chelonian” was no longer there!”

    The Mysterious Island

  • “[1] The glyptodon and armadillo are mammalian; the tortoise is a chelonian, a reptile, distinct classes of the animal kingdom; therefore the latter cannot be a representative of the former.”

    Journey to the Interior of the Earth

  • “Contempt will pierce the armor of a tortoise," says an oriental proverb; and poor Ragni had no chelonian armor.”

    Essays on Scandinavian Literature

  • “However, this is not the most general use to which the chelonian eggs are put in the provinces of Amazones and Para.”

    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon

  • “But these wall cases are mainly devoted to the exhibition of chelonian, or tortoise fossils, which are the highest class of fossil reptiles, except the serpents, and found only in the later or oolite formations of the earth.”

    How to See the British Museum in Four Visits

  • “The first three wall cases are devoted to the batrachian or Frog fossils; some of the chelonian or Tortoise fossils; and the fossil crocodiles.”

    How to See the British Museum in Four Visits

  • “At intervals, the turtle-catcher would look to his line; and when the extra strain upon it proved that the _remora_ was _en rapport_ with a turtle, he would haul in, until the huge _chelonian_ was brought within striking distance of his heavy club; and thus would the capture be effected.”

    The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea

  • “The ploughshare tortoise Astrochelys yniphora is one of four highly threatened Madagascan chelonian species, a group that includes turtles, tortoises and terrapins.”

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion

  • “I was blown away and knew that one of those egg laying, chelonian, testudinines was going to have to make their way onto our pages no matter how fast or slowly their webbed feet could get them here.”

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  1. anapsid reptile
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  1. turtle

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  1. turtle
  2. xiphiplastral
  1. river-tortoise
  2. chelichnite
  1. hyosternum
  2. land-tortoise
  1. tortoise
  2. plastron
  1. pleurospondylian
  2. sea turtle
  1. testudinate

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