Definitions for Turtle

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Turtle tur·tle

Spelling: [tur-tl]

IPA: /ˈtɜr tl/

Turtle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in Turtle (elrttu).

Definitions for Turtle

noun

1. any reptile of the order Testudines, comprising aquatic and terrestrial species having the trunk enclosed in a shell consisting of a dorsal carapace and a ventral plastron.
2. (not used technically) an aquatic turtle as distinguished from a terrestrial one. Compare tortoise (def 1).
3. a turtledove.

Idioms

1. turn turtle, Nautical. to capsize or turn over completely in foundering. to overturn; upset:

verb (used without object)

1. to catch turtles, especially as a business.

Origin of Turtle

1625-35; alteration (influenced by turtle²) of French tortue Medieval Latin tortūca tortoise

Examples for Turtle

He gave them a turtle and said: “Put it in the water-barrel in the yard.”

Such, Delawares, is the belief of the children of the turtle.

David McGuire tests Pacific seafood for mercury with GotMercury.org, a part of the turtle Bay Restoration Network.

He is a gopher, and different from the common kind of turtle.

A turtle may bury its eggs in a sand bank and abandon them to their fate.

Is there any reader of Young People who can tell me how to tame a turtle?

He was filming other television spots in January and his campaign manager and the producer wanted to do the turtle soup spot.

A non-Sioux nation in the state, turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, also said no.

So Rice decamped to turtle Bay, where she bided her time until Jones retired at the NSC.

In the meantime, Stovall has learned some political lessons in light of his turtle soup success.