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Leatherback

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The largest living sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), found in tropical waters and having a tough, leathery carapace with seven longitudinal ridges.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A large sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, with a leathery back.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A large sea turtle (Sphargis coriacea), having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A turtle of the family Dermochelydidæ, the Dermochelys coriaceus, or softshelled turtle, also known as leather-turtle, lyreturtle, trunk-turtle, and by other names. See Sphargis.

n. The ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida: so called from the red back of the male, which is of the color of tanned sole-leather.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle

Word Usage

"The leatherback is the world's biggest turtle and listed as Critically Endangered, largely because of poaching for eggs and snaring in fishing gear."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

sea turtle marine turtle

Variant

leather turtle leathery turtle leather-backed tortoise

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

neotropical soft-shell scrimshaw loggerhead aldermanic