Tortoise

Noun

 * 1) Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of family Testudinidae, whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.

Thesaurus
alligator, crocodile, crocodilian, dawdle, dawdler, dinosaur, drone, foot-dragger, gator, goldbrick, goof-off, laggard, lie-abed, lingerer, lizard, loiterer, plodder, procrastinator, reptile, reptilian, saurian, sleepyhead, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, sluggard, snail, stick-in-the-mud, terrapin, turtle

Etymology
tortuse:, tortuce:, tortuge:, from tortuca:, possibly from  tartarucha:, from  tartaruchus:, from  ταρταροῦχος:, because it used to be thought that tortoises and turtles came from the underworld; or from  tortus:.

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Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: baot, baoted , baot douar
 * Catalan: tortuga
 * Chinese: 草龟 (cǎoguī)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: χελώνα
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Isthmus Zapotec: bigu
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 亀 (かめ, kame), 陸亀 (りくがめ, rikugame)
 * Korean: 거북 (geobuk), 거북이 (geobugi)
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: желка
 * Mandarin:
 * Norwegian: ,


 * Persian:
 * Polish: żółw lądowy
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ţestoasă, broască ţestoasă
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: корњача
 * Roman: kornjača
 * Slovene: kopenska želva
 * Somali:
 * Spanish:, tortuga terrestre, morrocoy
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: తాబేలు (taabealu)
 * Tswana: (9/10)
 * Turkish: ,
 * Uyghur:
 * Cyrillic: ташпақа
 * Persic:
 * Roman: taşpaqa
 * Volapük: tortug,  hitortug,  jitortug,  tortugül
 * West Frisian: skyldpod