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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various freshwater turtles of the family Trionychidae, having a flat carapace covered with leathery skin, paddlelike limbs, and an elongated snout.
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- noun Any turtle of the family Trionychidae, such turtles having a
carapace that has noscutes and isleathery andpliable at the sides.
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