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Definition of Chelonians
1. chelonian [n] - See also: chelonian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chelonians
Literary usage of Chelonians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1846)
"I HAVE for nine years been engaged in collecting materials for a history of the
development of the chelonians, and I think of soon publishing the result of ..."
2. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"... A Group of Aquatic chelonians Known Commonly as Pond Turtles and River Turtles.
They are Characterised by Their Broad, Flat Shell. ..."
3. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. by Charles Darwin (1871)
"AMPHIBIANS : Differences in structure and colour between the sexes — Vocal organs.
REPTILES: chelonians — Crocodiles ..."
4. The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles ( Darwin (1890)
"REPTILES : chelonians—Crocodiles—Snakes, colours in some cases protective—Lizards,
battles of—Ornamental appendages—Strange differences in structure between ..."
5. Manual of geology by Samuel Haughton (1866)
"The chelonians arc without teeth, and have their jaws furnished with horny edges
or beaks, that answer the purpose of prehensile teeth. ..."
6. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1893)
"and some of which had a spread of wing of 20 to 25 feet.1 Among the chelonians
one gigantic species is supposed to have measured upwards of 15 feet between ..."
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