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sea turtle

n.

Any of various large marine turtles of the families Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae, including the green turtle, loggerhead turtle, ridley, and leatherback, having the forelimbs modified into very large flippers and usually living in tropical and subtropical oceans.

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Noun

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sea turtle - any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas marine turtle turtle - any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming Chelonia mydas, green turtle - large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup Caretta caretta, loggerhead turtle, loggerhead - very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas ridley - a marine turtle Eretmochelys imbricata, hawkbill, hawksbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle - pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle - wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle