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Definition of Testudinidae
1. Noun. Land tortoises.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Family
Group relationships: Chelonia, Order Chelonia, Order Testudinata, Order Testudines, Testudinata, Testudines
Member holonyms: Tortoise, Genus Testudo, Testudo, Genus Geochelone, Geochelone, Genus Gopherus, Gopherus, Genus Xerobates, Xerobates
Lexicographical Neighbors of Testudinidae
Literary usage of Testudinidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1891)
"In the testudinidae, or true ... E In half-grown testudinidae the ...
all testudinidae (land and fresh-water) which I have examined, with the single ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"India and Eurasia: Trionychidae and testudinidae. ... testudinidae are cosmopolitan,
excluding Australia, and practically also the Antilles; ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"India and Eurasia: Trionychidae and testudinidae. ... testudinidae are cosmopolitan,
excluding Australia, and practically also the Antilles; and Testudo is ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1901)
"... few testudinidae, does not come into consideration; Asia has at least testudinidae
and Trionychidae, and in addition the solitary Pluty sternum in ..."
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