Testudinata

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the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun-plural. An order of reptiles which includes the turtles and tortoises. The body is covered by a shell consisting of an upper or dorsal shell, called the carapace, and a lower or ventral shell, called the plastron, each of which consists of several plates.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • An order of Reptilia, having toothless jaws fashioned like the beak of a bird, two pairs of limbs fitted for walking or swimming, and the body incased in a bony box or leathery shell, consisting of a carapace and a plastron, to the formation of which the ribs and dorsal vertebræ are specially modified; the turtles and tortoises.
  • In a restricted sense, one of three suborders of Chelonia, contrasted with Athecæ and Trionychoidea, and containing the whole of the order excepting the Sphargididæ and the Trionychidæ.
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  • n. tortoises and turtles
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