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Definition of Common snapping turtle
1. Noun. Large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite.
Generic synonyms: Snapping Turtle
Group relationships: Chelydra, Genus Chelydra
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Snapping Turtle
Literary usage of Common snapping turtle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"The common snapping turtle of America is distributed from Southern Canada as far
south as Ecuador, and it frequents sluggish, muddy streams and marsh ponds. ..."
2. Popular Official Guide to the New York Zoological Park by New York Zoological Park, William Temple Hornaday, New York Zoological Society (1911)
"In form and temper it resembles the common snapping turtle of the North, and its
home is in the Gulf States. The largest of the two Louisiana specimens on ..."
3. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"Effects of a sudden increase in natural mortality of adults on a population of
the common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina). Can. J. Zool. 69:1314-1320. ..."
4. Economic Zoology: An Introductory Text-book in Zoology, with Special by Herbert Osborn (1908)
"The common snapping turtle, or mud turtle, is a familiar and widely distributed
form, used to some extent as food, and recognized as a ferocious species ..."
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