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Definition of Chelonian
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or resembling or being a turtle or tortoise.
2. Noun. A reptile of the order Chelonia.
Generic synonyms: Anapsid, Anapsid Reptile
Group relationships: Chelonia, Order Chelonia, Order Testudinata, Order Testudines, Testudinata, Testudines
Specialized synonyms: Turtle
Definition of Chelonian
1. a. Of or pertaining to animals of the tortoise kind.
Definition of Chelonian
1. Adjective. Of, relating to, or belonging to the order ''Chelonia'' (''Testudines''), which includes the turtles and tortoises. ¹
2. Noun. A reptile of the order Chelonia (''Testudines'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chelonian
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Chelonian
1. Resembling or relating to a turtle, tortoise, or terrapin. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chelonian
Literary usage of Chelonian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"XXXV PRELIMINARY NOTE ON THE FOSSIL REMAINS OF A chelonian REPTILE, ... It resembles
an ordinary chelonian caudal vertebra from the anterior half of the ..."
2. The Hand, Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design by Charles Bell (1833)
"In the chelonian order, the tortoises, we see another design accomplished, in
the union of these bones ; and the change is owing to a very curious ..."
3. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1854)
"Osteology of chelonian Reptiles—Tortoises and Turtles.—Those animals to which,
in the manifold modifications of the organic framework, a portable dwelling ..."
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