sea turtle

noun

any of several large turtles of the families Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical seas, having the limbs modified into paddlelike flippers: all sea turtles are either threatened or endangered through most of their range because of ocean pollution.

First recorded in 1670–80

Sometimes they are so fortunate as to obtain a sea-turtle; five only were taken during the two years we were there.

They abound, however, in land turtle and enormous iguanas; there was also abundance of sea turtle.

There was intense excitement when one of the men in a boat sighted a deep-sea turtle.

The remains of a sea turtle have lately been discovered, and are now in the possession of Mr. Deck, of Cambridge.

It was a deep-sea turtle of a surety, for the nearest land was a thousand miles away.

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