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- noun A variant form of
sea turtle
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Examples
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Five of the world's seven sea-turtle species nest along the Gulf Coast, and all five are deemed either endangered or threatened.
BP Spill's Next Major Phase: Wrangling Over Toll on Gulf Jeffrey Ball 2011
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In the meantime, Google relied on sea-turtle engineers who had come to China to check the code of local engineers.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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The fiercely intelligent animals are prodigious breeders (a pig population can triple in a year) and will eat everything from acorns and blackberries to sea-turtle eggs and deer fawns.
The Boar War 2009
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The fiercely intelligent animals are prodigious breeders (a pig population can triple in a year) and will eat everything from acorns and blackberries to sea-turtle eggs and deer fawns.
The Boar War 2009
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In the meantime, Google relied on sea-turtle engineers who had come to China to check the code of local engineers.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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Archie Carr, the late sea-turtle biologist, wrote so lovingly in the 1960s of seeing turtles, bathed in moonlight or the glow of phosphorescent surf, that his books helped nesting beaches become tourist draws from Costa Rica to Florida.
The Beating Heart Beneath the Shell Jennie Erin Smith 2011
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Sarah L. Milton, a sea-turtle physiologist at Florida Atlantic University, and co-author of a 2003 NOAA report on oil toxicity and its impacts on sea turtles, told the Huffington Post it couldn't have happened at a worse time.
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Like a sea-turtle stuck in a plastic six-pack ring, I am incapable of freeing myself.
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Like a sea-turtle stuck in a plastic six-pack ring, I am incapable of freeing myself.
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Like a sea-turtle stuck in a plastic six-pack ring, I am incapable of freeing myself.
The Perils of Karaoke « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2009
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