Testudo is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 142 anagrams from letters in testudo (deosttu).
1350-1400 for earlier sense “tumor”; 1600-10 for def 1; Middle English Latin testūdō tortoise, tortoise shell, siege engine; akin to test2
From him, it would seem, are taken the words 'testudo' and 'tumulus'.
It was a gigantic tortoise—a specimen of testudo elephantopus—a huge cumbersome brute.
Mr. Lydekker prefers to drop the generic term Colossochelys, and call it testudo Atlas.
An English lute with a double neck (testudo theorbata) made about 1650.
The word for lyre in Greek (χέλυς) and in Latin (testudo) means also a tortoise.
Hibbard's testudo riggsi (Hibbard, 1944) is the best known of these smaller turtles.
The testudo, a wooden shelter, was also used, large enough to contain several men.
The testudo Mydas, or sea-turtle, frequent the bays of Antigua.
The sow was a military engine, resembling the Roman testudo.
In length it was only one-third greater than testudo elephantina of the Galapagos Islands.
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