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Caretta caretta

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Noun1.Caretta carettaCaretta caretta - very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas
loggerhead turtle, loggerhead
marine turtle, sea turtle - any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas
Caretta, genus Caretta - loggerhead turtles


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Caretta" comes from caretta caretta, the scientific name of the loggerhead turtle, a symbol of longevity and luck as well as the totem of the new "slow life" approach to urban living.
If you build it, they will come: from bog to boomtown, Shiodome's ... by Hornyak, Tim / Japan Inc.
Variations in the blood chemistry of the loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta.
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