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Definition of Testudo graeca
1. Noun. Small land tortoise of southern Europe.
Generic synonyms: Tortoise
Group relationships: Genus Testudo, Testudo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Testudo Graeca
Literary usage of Testudo graeca
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs Relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, and Other Countries of the East by Robert Walpole (1818)
"testudo graeca. This is preferred as more wholesome than the T. Lutaria, the
river tortoise, which is sometimes, though rarely, eaten by the Greeks. ..."
2. A Manual of Zoology by Henri Milne-Edwards (1856)
"Greek Tortoise—testudo graeca. 274. Skeleton of a Tortoise. 275. Gecko of the Walls.
276. Cameleon. 277. The Turtle—Testudo Caretta. 278. Ichthyosaurus. ..."
3. Brookesian Museum: The Museum of Joshua Brookes ... Consists of a Collection by Joshua Brookes (1828)
"50 An interesting skeleton of a testudo graeca : in a gilt case glazed. ...
üb э:(1 1o NB The testudo graeca has been said to be indigenous, ..."
4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1830)
"In the testudo Graeca the cranium is less gibbous between the orbits. The principal
frontals, more long than broad, reach to the edge of the orbit, ..."
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