tortoise

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İngilizce - Türkçe
i., zool. kara kaplumbağası, kaplumbağa
kaplumbağa

Adacık uzaktan bir kaplumbağaya benziyordu. - The islet resembled a tortoise from afar.

Büyük kaplumbağaların çoğu, 18'inci ve 19'uncu yüzyılda, korsanlar tarafından öldürüldü. - Giant tortoises were decimated by pirates in the 18th and 19th century.

kara kaplumbağa
{i} kara kaplumbağası
{i} tosbağa
(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) karakaplumbağası
tortoise shell bağa
tortoise shell
kaplumbağa kabuğu
tortoise shell
bağa
tortoise beetle
kalkanböceği
desert tortoise
çöl kaplumbağası
giant tortoise
dev kaplumbağa
land tortoise
karakaplumbağası
box tortoise
kutusu kaplumbağa
gopher tortoise
gopher kaplumbağa
tortoises
kaplumbağa

Etçil kaplumbağaların olduğunu biliyor muydun? - Did you know there are carnivorous tortoises?

Büyük kaplumbağaların çoğu, 18'inci ve 19'uncu yüzyılda, korsanlar tarafından öldürüldü. - Giant tortoises were decimated by pirates in the 18th and 19th century.

land tortoise
kara kaplumbağası
İngilizce - İngilizce
Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of family Testudinidae, whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators
{n} a genus of amphibious reptiles, covered with a crust, an old military defense
A tortoise is a slow-moving animal with a shell into which it can pull its head and legs for protection. Any of some 40 species (family Testudinidae) of slow-moving, terrestrial, herbivorous turtles, found in the Old and New Worlds but chiefly in Africa and Madagascar. Tortoises have a high, domed shell, heavy elephantlike hind legs, and hard-scaled forelegs. The four North American species (genus Gopherus) have a brown shell, about 8-14 in. (20-35 cm) long, and flattened forelimbs adapted for burrowing. The common, or European, tortoise (Testudo graeca) has a shell about 7-10 in. (18-25 cm) long. Most species of giant tortoises on the Galápagos and other islands are now rare or extinct. One captive Galápagos tortoise had a shell 4.25 ft (1.3 m) long and weighed 300 lbs (140 kg)
Any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order Testudinata
usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica
{i} any of several species of terrestrial turtle, species of land-dwelling reptile with a hard dome-shaped shell
Same as Testudo, 2
tortoise shell
The shell of a tortoise, sometimes inaccurately the shell of a turtle, or that material
tortoise shells
plural form of tortoise shell
tortoise-shell
Attributive form of tortoise shell, noun

A tortoise-shell ashtray.

Tortoise and the Hare
a fable (=a traditional story that teaches a moral lesson) by Aesop in which a tortoise and a hare have a race. The tortoise unexpectedly wins by moving slowly but steadily, while the hare, because he knows he can run much faster than the tortoise, stops halfway and falls asleep. The lesson of the story is "Slow and steady wins the race
tortoise beetle
Any of several small beetles of the subfamily Cassidinae, shaped somewhat like a tortoise and having soft, fleshy larvae that eat the leaves of trees
tortoise-shell
carapace, hard shell which surrounds a tortoise
giant tortoise
Any of several species of reptile of the extinct genuses (Cylindraspis, Dipsochelys, and Meiolania platyceps)
giant tortoise
Any member or species of the genus Geochelone land tortoises reaching 1.3 meters in length and with average life spans exceeding 100 years
pancake tortoise
A species of flat-shelled tortoise, taxonomic name Malacochersus tornieri
Hare and the Tortoise
another name for The Tortoise and the Hare
desert tortoise
burrowing tortoise of the arid western United States and northern Mexico; may be reclassified as a member of genus Xerobates
european tortoise
small land tortoise of southern Europe
giant tortoise
very large tortoises of the Galapagos and Seychelles islands
gopher tortoise
burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
texas tortoise
close relative to the desert tortoise; may be reclassified as a member of genus Xerobates
tortoises
plural of tortoise
tortoise

    Heceleme

    tor·toise

    Türkçe nasıl söylenir

    tôrtıs

    Telaffuz

    /ˈtôrtəs/ /ˈtɔːrtəs/

    Etimoloji

    () Middle English tortuse, tortuce, tortuge, from Medieval Latin tortuca, possibly from Late Latin tartarūcha, from Late Latin tartarūchus (“of Tartarus”), from Ancient Greek ταρταροῦχος (tartarouchos, “from Tartaros, Tartarus, the land of the dead in ancient stories”), because it used to be thought that tortoises and turtles came from the underworld; or from Latin tortus (“twisted”).