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Definition of tortoise in English: tortoisenoun ˈtɔːtɔɪzˈtɔːtəsˈtɔrdəs 1A slow-moving typically herbivorous land reptile of warm climates, enclosed in a scaly or leathery domed shell into which it can retract its head and thick legs. 陆龟。北美称TURTLE Family Testudinidae: numerous genera and species, including the European tortoise (Testudo graeca). See also giant tortoise Called turtle in North America Example sentencesExamples - The herbivorous reptiles and tortoises had thrived until the arrival of man - and the rats that stowed away on his ships - because there had been no large predatory, carnivorous mammals for them to contend with.
- Therefore, though not excluding the presence of intrasexual selection in tortoise mating system, it seems likely that females are the choosy sex.
- Here the King of the Jungle was a giant vegetarian tortoise, and there were no large predators of any kind.
- Currently, the group is in the midst of training dogs to find desert tortoise scat and hope to conduct testing this spring in Nevada.
- The Iti National Park has wild goats, wild boars, deer, rodents, tortoises, reptiles, as well as an amazing variety of birds among which there are vultures, eagles, partridges, hoopoes, hawks, and owls.
- But when 14-year-old Luke tried to tempt it out of its shell by feeding it lettuce, as common herbivorous tortoises are accustomed to eating, the creature snapped at his hand with such force he was lucky to escape with his fingers intact.
- But if no rains fall during the warm seasons and the tortoises don't get a chance to drink, they will enter hibernation dehydrated, malnourished, and with a bladder full of toxic waste.
- I shot one sequence of a small female tortoise foiling a large male's mating attempts by quickly spinning around under his huge shell - a behavior I'd seen many times but never before captured.
- In addition, males are smaller than are females in most Testudinidae, particularly among European tortoises.
- The strength of a unique male bond between a young hippopotamus and a 130-year-old tortoise will be tested later this spring when conservation workers introduce a female hippo to the mix.
- Once she lays and buries her eggs, the female desert tortoise is finished with her parental role.
- He was sentenced to a total of two months, suspended for a year, and banned from keeping a pet shop, reptiles or tortoises for ten years.
- It was dropped by an eagle who was trying to crack open the tortoise's shell in order to eat it.
- While desert predators, particularly ravens and coyotes, can't do much damage to adults, they can easily penetrate the shells of young tortoises.
- Our goal was to place G. berlandieri in the greater context of turtle and tortoise life history strategies.
- A turtle lives in the water, a tortoise lives on land.
- But first, do you know the difference between a turtle and tortoise?
- Fortunately, it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond.
- We'd stroke her feet and drum our fingers gently on her shell (the tortoise equivalent of a jockey's crop).
- The strange tortoise's shell is flat underneath and not rounded at the belly as usual, he says.
- A mammal such as a horse, that stands with its left and right feet close together, has to control transverse movements of its centre of mass much more precisely than a reptile such as a tortoise, that stands with its feet far apart.
- A two-headed tortoise has come out of its shell in Dorset to find itself in the media spotlight.
- There the hippo immediately ran to Mzee, a 130-year-old Aldabran tortoise who resides at the Haller Park sanctuary.
- However, patterns of rainfall and tortoise reproduction are different in the Sonoran Desert.
- Baby One Thousand, along with 64 tortoise brothers and sisters, is aboard, too, in a well-ventilated crate on deck.
- For example, a tortoise is a herbivore and hibernates but a snake eats meat and needs to be kept warm all year.
- Lizards, tortoises, salamanders and many other animals all move in this way, but it has disadvantages.
- Land tortoises are vegetarian, eating leaves, grass, and in some cases even cactus.
- Other characters included two long-suffering frogs called Ernie and Sylve, an heroic tortoise called Lewis Collins and a little white shell called Jim Morrison.
- I held my breath as the dust cleared, and was relieved to see the tortoise lying fully retracted but unharmed.
- But the tugging tides of conservatism outlast most swells of enthusiasm and a series of setbacks conspired to drive London's orchestras furtively back into their shells, like Galapagos tortoises in a hurricane.
- The tortoises, marine iguanas and land iguanas on the Galapagos Islands, studied by Charles Darwin, provide some of the most striking examples.
- I've been fascinated by tortoises and turtles for a long time and I collect tortoise / turtle knick-knacks and figurines.
- Persistence and tenacity, not to say downright stubbornness, are qualities that all tortoise owners will recognize.
- The origin of turtles and tortoises from ancestral reptiles is still unclear.
- Hot on its heels is a seriously perturbed tortoise racing for the horizon in this Costa Rican forest.
- As the last two wives were passing, one of them stubbed her toe against the tortoise's shell and instantly let out a cry of pain.
- Thankfully the fire crew didn't need to use their cutting equipment and managed to coax the tortoise out of his shell by poking around inside.
- Wild goats and pigs threaten the food supply of the magnificent Galapagos tortoises, and rats eat the eggs of birds and reptiles that have evolved without natural predators.
- This mechanism is consistent with G. agassizii's propensity to relax homeostasis and appears critical to desert tortoise survival and reproduction.
- 1.1Australian A freshwater turtle.
〈澳〉淡水龟 Example sentencesExamples - Three other tortoises, two snapping turtles and a monitor lizard had to be hosed down by firefighters in Eric and Carole Griffiths' home in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester.
- Blue skinks, bearded dragons, crocodiles, alien-looking veiled chameleons, reticulated pythons, leopard tortoises, and tiny glistening frogs and toads of every color.
- Moreover, I had never thought of the fox as being a particularly Chinese animal like, say, the tortoise.
- Because two days ago at the Crocodile Bank not far from Mahabalipuram, along with hundreds of fascinating crocs and tortoises and snakes, I saw this sign.
- It carried its little Ôswag’ on its back, and thrust out its head from a sockety head like that of a tortoise.
- ‘Racing’ may sound like an odd term to describe a tortoise, but gopher tortoises are faster than you might think.
- The Turtle Conservation Fund has listed the 25 most endangered turtles to highlight the survival crisis facing tortoises and freshwater turtles and to unveil a global plan to prevent further extinctions.
2 another term for testudo Example sentencesExamples - The testudo, the tortoise formation, involved raising the scutums into a shell.
- It was also used by the Romans when they used what was known as a tortoise formation to move forward to a target that was well defended.
- The children are also learning to march like a tortoise as the Romans did, with shields at their side and on top.
- Like the tortoise thing that the roman soldiers used to do…
Derivativesadverb & adjective This optimism derives, in part, from a sense that Philadelphia's tortoise-like growth offers safe harbor in the wake of the 1990's boom-and-bust cycle. Example sentencesExamples - There are soft cases that are cloth-like and others that wear stout, tortoise-like shells.
- On my New Rochelle, N.Y., block, dial-up modem speeds are capped at a tortoise-like 28.8 Kbps due to the poor quality of the lines.
- We think this is a good idea, even if it simply gets them out of the control of the tortoise-like BT culture.
- 22 June: It's no better this morning; with the screen freezing every couple of minutes, progress is tortoise-like.
- And he spent so much time with his tongue up Bush's bottom that he forgot to attend to the delectable Cherie, so that her tortoise-like face now appears everywhere, desperately craving the attention so sadly denied her by darling Tony.
- There are too many who, tortoise-like, keep their heads inside their shells, fearing contamination from the world.
- And now that Webvan, the most prominent of the Internet food shopping companies has failed, Tesco's tortoise-like approach to the business is clearly more likely to succeed.
- And in that time his tortoise-like personality has been slowly but surely making his way into the Liberal lead.
- Most of all, there's the tortoise-like tortuous issue of local loop unbundling, Eircom, Esat and the regulator.
- Another, grim with concentration, eases herself tortoise-like along the passage on a walking frame.
- Rather than building on the huge jump it got with cable modems, the cable industry is letting its tortoise-like telco competitors mock its contention problems.
- But while Owen adds little to the genre's customary sound, one has to admit he does it well by not letting the tortoise-like pace get too monotonous.
- The grubby Kruzaeb and tortoise-like Vurthal-Aran were respected and very intelligent races, but they had absolutely no use in a battle situation.
- In fact our progress is are so tortoise-like that we don't stop for lunch until 4pm, and by then the old mill-house pub in Zennor is closed.
- It doesn't matter that she would finish last in her event (her personal best of 15 seconds is tortoise-like for the 100).
- But DBS companies are working overtime trying to exploit cable's tortoise-like approach to interactivity.
- The action two weeks ago was the first time since the mid-1980s that effective mass secondary strike action has taken place, wrong-footing the employers and also, sadly, the tortoise-like structures of our own official trade unionism.
- Since most of the industries receiving bailouts manage to sell their assets at a tortoise-like speed, we can take them as negative examples of such a bailout policy.
- The enigmatic Eunotosaurus africanus is characterized by a semi-rigid, turtle-like rib cage, one which presumably necessitated a tortoise-like fashion of walking.
OriginLate Middle English tortu, tortuce: from Old French tortue and Spanish tortuga, both from medieval Latin tortuca, of uncertain origin. The current spelling dates from the mid 16th century. turtle from mid 17th century: English sailors gave the turtle its name in the 1650s. They probably based it on tortue, an early form of tortoise (Late Middle English), from French tortue and Spanish tortuga ‘tortoise’ of uncertain origin. A boat is said to turn turtle when it turns upside down, because it then looks a bit like the shell of a turtle, or because it is as helpless as a turtle flipped over on its back. Mock turtle soup, inspiration for the Mock Turtle in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, is soup made with a calf's head, in imitation of turtle soup, once an important part of grand banquets. The turtle in turtle dove is a completely different word whose ultimate source is Latin turtur, an imitation of the bird's cooing. ‘The time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land’ is from the biblical Song of Solomon, a reference to the fact that the turtle dove is a migratory bird.
Definition of tortoise in US English: tortoisenounˈtôrdəsˈtɔrdəs 1A turtle, typically a herbivorous one that lives on land. Example sentencesExamples - In addition, males are smaller than are females in most Testudinidae, particularly among European tortoises.
- The tortoises, marine iguanas and land iguanas on the Galapagos Islands, studied by Charles Darwin, provide some of the most striking examples.
- Therefore, though not excluding the presence of intrasexual selection in tortoise mating system, it seems likely that females are the choosy sex.
- Persistence and tenacity, not to say downright stubbornness, are qualities that all tortoise owners will recognize.
- As the last two wives were passing, one of them stubbed her toe against the tortoise's shell and instantly let out a cry of pain.
- But if no rains fall during the warm seasons and the tortoises don't get a chance to drink, they will enter hibernation dehydrated, malnourished, and with a bladder full of toxic waste.
- The strength of a unique male bond between a young hippopotamus and a 130-year-old tortoise will be tested later this spring when conservation workers introduce a female hippo to the mix.
- However, patterns of rainfall and tortoise reproduction are different in the Sonoran Desert.
- Thankfully the fire crew didn't need to use their cutting equipment and managed to coax the tortoise out of his shell by poking around inside.
- Currently, the group is in the midst of training dogs to find desert tortoise scat and hope to conduct testing this spring in Nevada.
- I shot one sequence of a small female tortoise foiling a large male's mating attempts by quickly spinning around under his huge shell - a behavior I'd seen many times but never before captured.
- The Iti National Park has wild goats, wild boars, deer, rodents, tortoises, reptiles, as well as an amazing variety of birds among which there are vultures, eagles, partridges, hoopoes, hawks, and owls.
- A two-headed tortoise has come out of its shell in Dorset to find itself in the media spotlight.
- Lizards, tortoises, salamanders and many other animals all move in this way, but it has disadvantages.
- I held my breath as the dust cleared, and was relieved to see the tortoise lying fully retracted but unharmed.
- But the tugging tides of conservatism outlast most swells of enthusiasm and a series of setbacks conspired to drive London's orchestras furtively back into their shells, like Galapagos tortoises in a hurricane.
- I've been fascinated by tortoises and turtles for a long time and I collect tortoise / turtle knick-knacks and figurines.
- Baby One Thousand, along with 64 tortoise brothers and sisters, is aboard, too, in a well-ventilated crate on deck.
- A mammal such as a horse, that stands with its left and right feet close together, has to control transverse movements of its centre of mass much more precisely than a reptile such as a tortoise, that stands with its feet far apart.
- But first, do you know the difference between a turtle and tortoise?
- Once she lays and buries her eggs, the female desert tortoise is finished with her parental role.
- Land tortoises are vegetarian, eating leaves, grass, and in some cases even cactus.
- Hot on its heels is a seriously perturbed tortoise racing for the horizon in this Costa Rican forest.
- This mechanism is consistent with G. agassizii's propensity to relax homeostasis and appears critical to desert tortoise survival and reproduction.
- Here the King of the Jungle was a giant vegetarian tortoise, and there were no large predators of any kind.
- Wild goats and pigs threaten the food supply of the magnificent Galapagos tortoises, and rats eat the eggs of birds and reptiles that have evolved without natural predators.
- We'd stroke her feet and drum our fingers gently on her shell (the tortoise equivalent of a jockey's crop).
- The origin of turtles and tortoises from ancestral reptiles is still unclear.
- There the hippo immediately ran to Mzee, a 130-year-old Aldabran tortoise who resides at the Haller Park sanctuary.
- But when 14-year-old Luke tried to tempt it out of its shell by feeding it lettuce, as common herbivorous tortoises are accustomed to eating, the creature snapped at his hand with such force he was lucky to escape with his fingers intact.
- Fortunately, it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond.
- The herbivorous reptiles and tortoises had thrived until the arrival of man - and the rats that stowed away on his ships - because there had been no large predatory, carnivorous mammals for them to contend with.
- It was dropped by an eagle who was trying to crack open the tortoise's shell in order to eat it.
- While desert predators, particularly ravens and coyotes, can't do much damage to adults, they can easily penetrate the shells of young tortoises.
- A turtle lives in the water, a tortoise lives on land.
- Our goal was to place G. berlandieri in the greater context of turtle and tortoise life history strategies.
- The strange tortoise's shell is flat underneath and not rounded at the belly as usual, he says.
- Other characters included two long-suffering frogs called Ernie and Sylve, an heroic tortoise called Lewis Collins and a little white shell called Jim Morrison.
- For example, a tortoise is a herbivore and hibernates but a snake eats meat and needs to be kept warm all year.
- He was sentenced to a total of two months, suspended for a year, and banned from keeping a pet shop, reptiles or tortoises for ten years.
- 1.1informal Anything exceptionally slow-moving.
you are a tortoise on the uptake today Example sentencesExamples - Normally the pavements were so crowded with prams and shopping trolleys and people stopping to chat, you had to walk in the road on the far side of parked cars if you wanted to progress at anything more than tortoise pace.
2 another term for testudo Example sentencesExamples - The children are also learning to march like a tortoise as the Romans did, with shields at their side and on top.
- It was also used by the Romans when they used what was known as a tortoise formation to move forward to a target that was well defended.
- The testudo, the tortoise formation, involved raising the scutums into a shell.
- Like the tortoise thing that the roman soldiers used to do…
OriginLate Middle English tortu, tortuce: from Old French tortue and Spanish tortuga, both from medieval Latin tortuca, of uncertain origin. The current spelling dates from the mid 16th century. |