chelonian

• He opened his eyes and waited Nothing happened save two rainbow parrots flew by and a large tortoise with remarkably long legs for a chelonian came plodding up the riverbank to settle down in a shallow depression near the Trail. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2007
• 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. —  All articles at Blogcritics
• Asian appetites for turtle -- the Chinese alone consumed some 20 million last year -- have endangered or driven extinct 75 percent of their native species, outstripped efforts to farm select varieties and sent markets searching worldwide for easy chelonian bounty. —  FLA Politics - Front Page
• 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
• In many places depressions or elevations gave witness to some tremendous power effecting the dislocation of strata 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. —  A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

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