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Definition of Testudines
1. Noun. Tortoises and turtles.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Anapsida, Subclass Anapsida
Member holonyms: Chelonian, Chelonian Reptile, Chelonidae, Cheloniidae, Family Chelonidae, Family Cheloniidae, Dermochelyidae, Family Dermochelyidae, Chelydridae, Family Chelydridae, Family Kinosternidae, Kinosternidae, Emydidae, Family Emydidae, Family Testudinidae, Testudinidae, Family Trionychidae, Trionychidae
Derivative terms: Chelonian
Definition of Testudines
1. testudo [n] - See also: testudo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Testudines
Literary usage of Testudines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reptiles of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin: An Account of the Species by John Van Denburgh (1897)
"Testudines.—p.. a2.—Body not protected by a bony carapace; jaws provided with
teeth.* (Lizards nud snakes) Squamata.—p.. Order I. Testudines. ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1896)
"Cope really believes now, that the element in the Testudines called by Cuvier
... It is free from the exoccipital in the Ichthyosauria, Testudines, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"The size of this testudo, a« that of other testudines, of course varied. ...
All the testudines were as a general rule covered with a double layer of fresh ..."
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