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1. (n.) tortoise
a turtle, esp. a terrestrial turtle.
2. tortoise
a very slow person or thing.
Etymology: (1350–1400; var. of earlier tortuse, tortose, tortuce, ME tortuca < ML tortūca, for LL tartarūcha (fem. adj.) of Tartarus (< Gk tartaroûcha), the tortoise being regarded as an infernal animal)
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1. (noun) tortoise
usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica
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1. (noun) tortoise
a slow-moving animal with a shell on its back
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1. (noun) tortoise
any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order Testudinata
2. (noun) tortoise
same as Testudo, 2
3. (noun) tortoise
having a color like that of a tortoise's shell, black with white and orange spots; -- used mostly to describe cats of that color
4. (noun) tortoise
a tortoise-shell cat
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Sense: a kind of four-footed, slow-moving reptile covered with a hard shell.
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 Afrikaans: skilpad |
 Arabic: سُلْحَفاه |
 Bulgarian: костенурка |
 Brazilian: cágado |
 Czech: želva |
 German: die Schildkröte |
 Danish: skildpadde |
 Greek: χελώνα |
 Spanish: tortuga |
 Estonian: kilpkonn |
 Farsi: لاک پشت |
 Finnish: kilpikonna |
 French: tortue |
 Hebrew: צַב |
 Hindi: कछुआ |
 Croatian: kornjača |
 Hungarian: (szárazföldi) teknősbéka |
 Indonesian: kura-kura |
 Icelandic: skjaldbaka |
 Italian: testuggine, tartaruga |
 Japanese: かめ |
 Korean: 거북 |
 Lithuanian: vėžlys |
 Latvian: bruņurupucis |
 Malay: kura-kura |
 Dutch: schildpad |
 Norwegian: skilpadde |
 Polish: żółw |
 Persian: لاک پشت |
 Pashto: كيشپ، شمشتۍ |
 Portuguese: cágado |
 Romanian: broască ţestoasă |
 Russian: черепаха |
 Slovak: korytnačka |
 Slovenian: želva |
 Serbian: kornjača |
 Swedish: sköldpadda |
 Thai: เต่า |
 Turkish: kara kamlumbağası |
 Taiwanese: 龜 |
 Ukrainian: черепаха |
 Urdu: کچھوا |
 Vietnamese: rùa cạn |
 Chinese: 龟 |
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