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sea tur·tle

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sea turtle, marine turtlenoun

    any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas

Wiktionary

  1. sea turtlenoun

    Any turtle that inhabits oceans.

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  1. sea turtle

    A sea turtle is a large marine reptile characterized by a streamlined shell and limbs modified as flippers, adapted for swimming in the ocean. They spend majority of their lives in the sea, only coming ashore mainly to lay eggs. Some of the species of sea turtles include the leatherback, green, hawksbill, loggerhead, olive ridley, and Kemp's ridley. Sea turtles are known for their long migratory patterns and their lifespan can reach up to several decades. They are most often omnivorous but dietary preferences can vary with different species.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sea turtle

    any one of several very large species of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. They inhabit all warm seas

  2. Sea turtle

    the sea pigeon, or guillemot

Wikidata

  1. Sea turtle

    Sea turtles or marine turtles are turtles that inhabit all of the world's oceans except the Arctic. Most species of sea turtle are endangered.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sea turtle in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sea turtle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of sea turtle in a Sentence

  1. The Facebook post:

    Edisto Beach State Park sea turtle patrol had a very rare find during a routine nest inventory, three to five days after a sea turtle nest shows signs of a major emergence, we dig down to determine the success of the nest by counting the hatched eggs, unhatched eggs and on occasions also find live hatchlings. While performing an inventory this past Wednesday, patrollers and volunteers found three alive loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings still in the chamber, but one hatchling, in particular, stood out because it had two heads!

  2. Brian Lapointe:

    Oftentimes you have sea turtle nests on beaches that are being run over by tires of this heavy equipment crushing the eggs.

  3. Pamela Plotkin:

    Any time you see a Kemp's ridley sea turtle laying eggs on a beach, it is a win for conservationists because there were only a few hundred left on this planet in the mid-1980s.


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