Turtle

Etymology 1
Modification of tortue: (probably under the influence of turtledove:). See tortoise: for more.

Noun

 * 1) A land or marine reptile having a protective shell (made up of a carapace and a plastron) enclosing its body.
 * 2)  A sea turtle.
 * 3)  An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.
 * 4)  A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
 * 5)  An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
 * 6) * 1997, Brian Harvey, Computer Science Logo Style: Symbolic computing
 * Depending on which version of Logo you have, the turtle may look like an actual animal with a head and four legs or — as in Berkeley Logo — it may be represented as a triangle.

Derived terms

 * African helmeted turtle
 * Afro-American sideneck turtle
 * Alabama red-bellied turtle
 * alligator turtle, alligator-turtle
 * American turtle
 * Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles
 * Arakan forest turtle
 * Australian short-necked turtle
 * Austro-American sideneck turtle
 * awkward turtle
 * bastard turtle
 * big-headed turtle
 * black marsh turtle
 * black turtle bean
 * Blanding's turtle
 * bog turtle
 * box turtle, box-turtle
 * chicken turtle, chicken-turtle
 * common snakeneck turtle
 * cooter turtle
 * diamond-backed turtle
 * dragon turtle
 * eastern long-neck turtle
 * Fitzroy River turtle
 * flatback turtle
 * Florida redbelly turtle
 * Fly River turtle
 * golden coin turtle
 * gopher turtle
 * greaved turtle
 * Greenland turtle


 * green turtle
 * have a turtle's head
 * hawk-billed turtle, hawksbill sea turtle, hawk's-bill turtle, hawksbill turtle
 * horned turtle
 * land turtle
 * leaf turtle
 * leather turtle
 * leatherback turtle
 * leather-turtle
 * leathery turtle
 * loggerhead turtle, logger-headed turtle
 * lyre turtle
 * Madagascan big-headed turtle
 * map turtle
 * marine turtle
 * marsh turtle
 * mata mata turtle, matamata turtle
 * Mary River turtle
 * mock turtle
 * mock turtle soup
 * mud turtle
 * musk turtle
 * New Guinea snakeneck turtle
 * Olive Ridley turtle
 * painted turtle
 * pancake turtle
 * pig-nosed turtle, pig-nose turtle, pignose turtle
 * pitted-shelled turtle


 * plateless turtle
 * Plymouth redbelly turtle
 * pond turtle
 * purple turtler
 * red-bellied turtle
 * river turtle
 * roofed turtle
 * sea turtle, sea-turtle
 * side-necked turtle
 * silver stater with a turtle
 * snake-eating turtle
 * snake-necked turtle
 * snapping turtle, snapping-turtle
 * soft-shelled turtle, soft-shell turtle, softshell turtle
 * spiny turtle
 * spotted turtle
 * toad-headed turtle
 * twisted-necked turtle
 * tortoise-shell turtle
 * trunk turtle, trunk-turtle
 * turn the turtle
 * turn turtle
 * turning turtles
 * turtle-back, turtleback
 * turtle bean
 * turtleburger
 * turtle-corral
 * turtle cowrie, turtle cowry
 * turtle-crab
 * turtle-crawl
 * turtle-deck


 * turtledom
 * turtle-egging
 * turtle excluder device
 * turtle-footed
 * turtle-frolic
 * turtle graphics
 * turtle grass, turtle-grass
 * turtle-head, turtlehead
 * turtle hull
 * turtle-insect
 * turtle-kraal
 * turtle neck, turtle-neck, turtleneck
 * turtle peg, turtle-peg
 * turtle-press
 * turtler
 * turtle racing
 * turtles all the way down
 * turtle shell
 * turtle ship
 * turtle soup
 * turtle stone
 * turtle-shell
 * turtle-soup
 * turtle-stone
 * turtlet
 * turtle trade
 * turtle-twine
 * turtling
 * turtly
 * water turtle
 * western swamp turtle
 * wood turtle

Translations

 * Afrikaans: skilpad
 * Arabic: (sulaħfáah),  (saláaħif)
 * Armenian: (kria)
 * Basque: dortoka
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: baot, baoted , baot douar (land turtle), baot vor (sea turtle)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: tortuga
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese: 烏龜/乌龟 (wūguī); 王八 (wángbā); 鼈 (biē, freshwater turtle. Variants 鱉,鳖, and 龞.)
 * Cree: ᒥᐢᑭᓈᕁ
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Darkinjung:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Fijian: vonu
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: tartaruga, sapoconcho
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: νεροχελώνα
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hawaiian: honu
 * Hebrew: צב (tsav)
 * Hopi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian: kura-kura, penyu (sea turtle)
 * Irish: turtar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 亀 (かめ, káme), 海亀 (うみがめ, umigáme)
 * Korean: 거북 (keobuk), 바다거북 (padageobuk)


 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: bruņurupucis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Nahuatl: ayotl
 * Navajo: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: skilpadde
 * Nynorsk: skjelpadde
 * Persian: (lâke posht)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Rapanui: honu
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: kornjača
 * Slovak: korytnačka
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: tortuga, peta
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pagongpawikan
 * Tamil: ஆமை (Amai)
 * Telugu: తాబేలు (taabaelu)
 * Thai: (tàò)
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Volapük: tortug,  hitortug,  jitortug,  tortugül, länatortug, melatortug
 * West Frisian:


 * Darkinjung:
 * Esperanto: martestudo
 * Finnish: ,
 * Navajo:


 * Polish: żółw wodny
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Volapük: melatortug


 * Finnish: kilpikonnamuodostelma


 * Russian:


 * Finnish: piirustusrobotti


 * Finnish: kursori

Verb

 * 1) To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.
 * 2) * 1919, Iowa Highway Commission, Service Bulletin, Issues 15-32‎, page 48
 * Were speeding when car turtled Auto crashed into curb and turtled.
 * 1) To turn and swim upside down.
 * 2) * 2009, Amy Waeschle, Chasing Waves: A Surfer's Tale of Obsessive Wandering‎, page 149
 * I turtled my board beneath it, flipped upright, and started paddling again.
 * 1) To hunt turtles, especially in the water.
 * 2) * 1973, Bernard Nietschmann, Between Land and Water: The Subsistence Ecology of the Miskito Indians, page 153
 * Of these, 80 turtled (65%), 26 hunted and turtled (20%), and 18 hunted (15%).
 * 1)  To build up a large defense force and strike only punctually, rather than going for an offensive strategy.

Translations

 * Finnish: kääntyä ympäri
 * French: capoter, se renverser,  faire un tonneau


 * Italian:
 * Spanish:, dar una vuelta de campana


 * Finnish: kääntää ympäri


 * Finnish:

Etymology 2
Ultimately from turtur:, of imitative origin.

Noun

 * 1)  A turtle dove.

Derived terms

 * turtle-bird
 * turtle dove, turtle-dove, turtledove


 * turtleish, turtlish
 * turtleise, turtlise, turtleize, turtlize

Translations
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