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Giant tortoise — Taxobox name = Giant Tortoise image width = 200px image caption = Galápagos Giant Tortoise regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Sauropsida ordo = Testudines subordo = Cryptodira familia = TestudinidaeGiant tortoises are characteristic… … Wikipedia
giant tortoise — noun very large tortoises of the Galapagos and Seychelles islands • Hypernyms: ↑tortoise • Member Holonyms: ↑Testudo, ↑genus Testudo, ↑Geochelone, ↑genus Geochelone * * * noun, pl ⋯ toises [count] : a large plant eating tortoise … Useful english dictionary
giant tortoise — noun Date: circa 1909 any of various large long lived herbivorous land tortoises (genus Geochelone) formerly common on the islands of the western Indian Ocean and on the Galápagos Islands … New Collegiate Dictionary
giant tortoise — any of several large tortoises of the genus Geochelone, of the Galápagos Islands and islands near Madagascar: some are endangered. [1910 15] * * * … Universalium
giant tortoise — gi′ant tor′toise n. ram any of several large tortoises of the genus Geochelone, of the Galápagos Islands and islands near Madagascar … From formal English to slang
Aldabra giant tortoise — Conservation status … Wikipedia
Aldabra Giant Tortoise — Taxobox name = Aldabra Giant Tortoise status = VU status system = iucn2.3 image width = 200px regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Sauropsida ordo = Testudines subordo = Cryptodira familia = Testudinidae genus = Geochelone species = G.… … Wikipedia
Réunion giant tortoise — Live C. indica. Conservation status … Wikipedia
Domed Rodrigues giant tortoise — Illustration from c. 1770 by Jossigny Conservation status … Wikipedia
Saddle-backed Mauritius giant tortoise — Conservation status Extinct (IUCN 2.3) Scientific classification … Wikipedia
