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Wide ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace
Answer for the clue "Wide ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace ", 11 letters:
leatherback
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. wide ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle [syn: leatherback turtle , leathery turtle , Dermochelys coriacea ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leatherback \Leath"er*back`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A large sea turtle ( Sphargis coriacea ), having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A large sea turtle, ''Dermochelys coriacea'', with a leathery back.
Usage examples of leatherback.
Vaunce took Curf, Swane was picked by Hep, a leatherback from Marneri.
First you have to have a green female from a mating between leatherback and a green.
Leatherback and Leatherback is the rule, though greens are mated with brasshides.
But every dragon know that one in three sprats from a leatherback and green mating will be freemartin.
Shalp, a leatherback from Bea, was killed by a ten-foot catapult spear.
The big leatherback had covered with his shield, though not even a shield could stop some of these catapult projectiles.
Jumble was smacked backwards by a tentacle slap and the leatherback went down with a heavy thud.
A party was sent back to look for the young leatherback, but there was no sign of him.
Sinni had placed him as a newborn on the streets of Quosh, to be raised a dragonboy and paired with a fine leatherback dragon.
However, the great wild one had never marched anywhere before and with his great weight, twice that of a leatherback, he was putting tremendous pressure on his feet.
Then Berholt, the young leatherback who had already lost his dragonboy Krusp, was struck in the middle of the back as he bent over a mud man to pull out his sword.
The new style of imp was very troublesome, indeed they had suffered casualties and even lost a dragon, Kreuzun, a leatherback from Lake Gana in the Blue Hills.
Burthong charged and struck him so heavy a blow with the shield that the leatherback was knocked right off his feet and fell with a shattering crash to the ground.
Burthong swung a backhand return and then clobbered the leatherback with the edge of his shield.
He was afraid that the leatherback would not be able to control himself once he came that close to his beloved wild green dragoness.