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loggerhead turtle
noun
- a sea turtle, Caretta caretta, having a large head: now greatly reduced in number.
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Origin of loggerhead turtle1
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Example Sentences
He soon had his charger in fair control, but the science of riding a big loggerhead turtle isn't picked up in a minute.
One day while Pedro sat in the bow, they saw a 400-pound loggerhead turtle lying asleep on the water.
As they neared the bay a loggerhead turtle rose near them and Dick wanted to hunt it.
I had often read of this, and once I tried it, but caught only a loggerhead turtle of twenty pounds.
The second is called loggerhead turtle, having a shell much resembling the hawk-bill, but not worth anything for manufacturing.
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