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testudines

noun

Meaning

  1. Any turtle, tortoise etc of the order Testudines.
  2. A shelter formed by a body of troops by holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
  3. A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.
  4. A kind of lyre; so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.
  5. An encysted tumour.
  6. The fornix.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

chelonia(English)order chelonia(English)order testudinata(English)order testudines(English)testudinata(English)testacea(English)ovotestes(English)testaceous(English)

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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