Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various small turtles of the genus Kinosternon, having hinged lobes on the ventral part of the shell and found in slow-moving fresh waters throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A name given in the United States to various turtles which live in the mud or muddy water, as species of Trionychidæ and Emydidæ.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) any one of numerous species of fresh-water tortoises of the United States.
WordNet 3.0
- n. bottom-dwelling freshwater turtle inhabiting muddy rivers of North America and Central America
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Turtles
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tortoises and turtles
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