marine turtle
English Thesaurus
1. any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | turtle, |
| definition | : | any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | chelonia mydas, green turtle, |
| definition | : | large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | caretta caretta, loggerhead, loggerhead turtle, |
| definition | : | very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | ridley, |
| definition | : | a marine turtle (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | eretmochelys imbricata, hawkbill, hawksbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle, |
| definition | : | pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | dermochelys coriacea, leatherback, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle, |
| definition | : | wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle (noun.animal) |
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