Crossword clues for tortoise
tortoise
- Shelled animal
- Hare's race opponent
- Hare's challenger
- Hare racer
- Galápagos denizen
- Fabled race winner
- Fabled come-from-behind race-winner
- Winner of a fabled race
- Turtle-like creature
- Tie roots (anag)
- Surprise winner of fable
- Surprise victor of storydom
- Slow-moving Chicago band?
- Race winner
- Noted race winner
- Herbivorous reptile
- Hare's opponent of fable
- Hare's fable opponent
- Hare's defeater
- Galapagos giant
- Fabled slowpoke
- Fabled beneficiary of a nap
- Fable winner
- Creature that beat a hare in a fabled race
- "__ Wins By a Hare": Bugs Bunny cartoon
- Winner in a well-known upset
- Fabled racer
- See 96-Across
- Usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs
- Worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica
- Shade of brown
- Victor in a fabled race
- Terrapin
- Kind of beetle
- Race winner of fable
- Partner of 41-Down
- Slow-moving reptile
- Slow mover, old, is tucking into sweet cake
- Shelled reptile
- Animal raced round it? So unlikely
- Lettuce-munching plodder
- Land turtle
- Totally non-aquatic turtle
- Slow mover
- Slow-moving creature
- Aesop character
- Aesop critter
- Winner in a fabled upset
- Storied surprise winner
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tortoise \Tor"toise\, n. [OE. tortuce, fr. OF. tortis crooked, fr. L. tortus twisted, crooked, contorted, p. p. of torquere, tortum, to wind; cf. F. tortue tortoise, LL. tortuca, tartuca, Pr. tortesa crookedness, tortis crooked. so called in allusion to its crooked feet. See Torture.]
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(Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order Testudinata.
Note: The term is applied especially to the land and fresh-water species, while the marine species are generally called turtles, but the terms tortoise and turtle are used synonymously by many writers. See Testudinata, Terrapin, and Turtle.
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(Rom. Antiq.) Same as Testudo, 2.
Box tortoise, Land tortoise, etc. See under Box, Land, etc.
Painted tortoise. (Zo["o]l.) See Painted turtle, under Painted.
Soft-shell tortoise. (Zo["o]l.) See Trionyx.
Spotted tortoise. (Zo["o]l.) A small American fresh-water tortoise ( Chelopus guttatus or Nanemys guttatus) having a blackish carapace on which are scattered round yellow spots.
Tortoise beetle (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of small tortoise-shaped beetles. Many of them have a brilliant metallic luster. The larv[ae] feed upon the leaves of various plants, and protect themselves beneath a mass of dried excrement held over the back by means of the caudal spines. The golden tortoise beetle ( Cassida aurichalcea) is found on the morning-glory vine and allied plants.
Tortoise plant. (Bot.) See Elephant's foot, under Elephant.
Tortoise shell, the substance of the shell or horny plates of several species of sea turtles, especially of the hawkbill turtle. It is used in inlaying and in the manufacture of various ornamental articles.
Tortoise-shell butterfly (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of handsomely colored butterflies of the genus Aglais, as Aglais Milberti, and Aglais urtic[ae], both of which, in the larva state, feed upon nettles.
Tortoise-shell turtle (Zo["o]l.), the hawkbill turtle. See Hawkbill.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, altered (perhaps by influence of porpoise) from Middle English tortuse (late 15c.), tortuce (mid-15c.), tortuge (late 14c.), from Medieval Latin tortuca (mid-13c.), perhaps from Late Latin tartaruchus "of the underworld" (see Tartarus). Others propose a source in Latin tortus "twisted," based on the shape of the feet. The classical Latin word was testudo, from testa "shell." First record of tortoise shell as a pattern of markings is from 1782.
Wiktionary
n. 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.
WordNet
n. usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica
Wikipedia
Tortoise is an American post-rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in 1990.
A tortoise is a land-dwelling reptile, protected by a shell, of the order Testudines.
Tortoise may also refer to:
- Tortoise (band), a US post-rock band formed in 1990
- Tortoise heavy assault tank, a British heavy assault gun
- Tortoise formation, a defensive formation employed in Ancient Roman warfare
- Tortoise Matsumoto (born 1966), a lead singer of a Japanese rock band Ulfuls
- Tortoises, a 1921 short volume of poetry by D. H. Lawrence containing poems later collected in Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923)
Tortoise is the eponymous debut studio album by Chicago-based instrumental rock band Tortoise. It was released in 1994 on the Thrill Jockey record label.
The album is dedicated to the memory Michael F. Cergizan, who was a member of bassist Doug McCombs', and John Herndon's (both current members of Tortoise) band "Simple." in 1988.
The song "Cornpone Brunch" begins with a sample of the "Wonderful Radio Jingle" at the beginning of The Who Sell Out.
Tortoises are a family, Testudinidae, of land-dwelling reptiles in the order Testudines. Tortoises are shielded from predators by a shell. The top part of the shell is the carapace, the underside is the plastron, and the two are connected by the bridge. The carapace is fused to both the vertebrae and ribcage, and tortoises are unique among vertebrates in that the pectoral and pelvic girdles are inside, rather than outside, the ribcage. Tortoises can vary in size from a few centimeters to two meters. They are usually diurnal animals with tendencies to be crepuscular depending on the ambient temperatures. They are generally reclusive animals.
Usage examples of "tortoise".
Differences in form and amplitude of curve are well illustrated by various muscles of the tortoise.
Elsewhere a carved red-lacquer chair stood beside a seventeenth-century cabinet decorated with marquetry of pewter and tortoise shell on a palisander ground.
This shelter was known as a testudo, meaning tortoise: the shelter looked like the shell, and the ram like the a head going in and out.
Huy assured him, and as he spoke the distant axemen formed up quickly into the testudo formation, an armoured tortoise of shields, and they trotted out between the enclosing arms of spearmen, beating the encircling movement with minutes to spare.
May I ask whether you are any kin to the famous Mr Aubrey of Testudo aubreii, that most splendid of the tortoise kind?
Goliath, who paused in perfect view, so well turned to the light that they could even count his plates, comparing them with those of Testudo aubreii on the Indian Ocean, which Maturin had discovered, described and named, giving Jack his only likelihood of earthly immortality, and with the thin-shelled and lighter though still respectable tortoise of Rodriguez.
I flinched, pulled up shoulders, made as much like a scared tortoise as a man can, and waited for the blow.
Hartstein popped into the Eleatic academy, Zeno was going over the tortoise paradox for the benefit of the young men in his class.
The area beyond the elevator was filling up with prehistoric creatures: a duck-billed dinosaur, an Eryops, an ancient tortoise, all moving rather stiffly, like people in tuxedos entering a subway car.
These fishes, like the tortoise, the armadillo, the sea-hedgehog, and the Crustacea, are protected by a breastplate which is neither chalky nor stony, but real bone.
When Mym was carried off by the usurping Duke Eunicet of Dukedom, Douglas went to her rescue, with the help of a Great Sea Tortoise named Oval.
This was more like the constant overcorrections of a novice driver, for the Tortoise indeed seemed to be hunting for some proper path.
Plunger Plumstead, whose head was sunk, like that of an aged tortoise, into a collar several sizes too large for him, sported an ancient black velvet jacket and a silk scarf.
Jordan in the lead, our path took us by the Tortoise Fountain with its handsome boys helping turtles crawl up to a higher fountain.
Huy assured him, and as he spoke the distant axemen formed up quickly into the testudo formation, an armoured tortoise of shields, and they trotted out between the enclosing arms of spearmen, beating the encircling movement with minutes to spare.