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Giant tortoise   /dʒˈaɪənt tˈɔrtəs/   Listen
Giant tortoise

noun
1.
Very large tortoises of the Galapagos and Seychelles islands.





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"Giant tortoise" Quotes from Famous Books



... see those little lumps there enclosed between four boards? It is a nest of land-tortoises. The largest, called the Giant tortoise, easily supports on its back a weight of two hundred pounds. This shell which weighs so heavily is its house. At the least alarm, it retreats into its house and stays there, till all danger is past." This plan of walking about with ...
— The Curly-Haired Hen • Auguste Vimar


Words linked to "Giant tortoise" :   tortoise, testudo, genus Testudo, Geochelone, genus Geochelone


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