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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) of the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coastal waters, having a greenish-gray carapace.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Richard M. Kemp, American fisherman and naturalist who sent specimens to a marine biologist in the 1870s.]
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