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Chelydra   Listen
noun
Chelydra  n.  A genus of snapping turtles.
Synonyms: genus Chelydra.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Chelydra" Quotes from Famous Books



... more extended means of judgment than we have at hand. But that they are of superlative excellence, brilliant, delicate, accurate, life-like, and nature-like, is what none will dispute. Look at these turtles, models of real-estate owners as they are, Observe No. 13, Plate IV.,—"Chelydra Serpentina,"—"snapper", or "snappin' turtle," in the vernacular. He is out collecting rents from the naked-skinned reptiles, his brethren; in default thereof, taking the bodies of the aforesaid. Or behold No. 5, Plate VI., bewailing the wretchedness of those who have no roofs to cover them. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various



Words linked to "Chelydra" :   family Chelydridae, genus Chelydra, Chelydridae



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