sea turtle

Any of various large marine turtles of the families Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae, including the green turtle, loggerhead turtle, Kemp's ridley, olive ridley, hawksbill, and leatherback, having flippers adapted for swimming and living chiefly in tropical and subtropical oceans.

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sea′ tur`tle

any of several large turtles of the families Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical seas, having the limbs modified into paddlelike flippers.

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Noun

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

Translations

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tortuga marina

merikilpikonna

tortue marine

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penyu

ウミガメ海亀

zeeschildpad

морская черепаха

havssköldpadda

deniz kaplumbağası

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References in classic literature

Shark it was, and not crocodile, and not so timidly would it have sheered clear but for the fact that it was fairly full with a recent feed of a huge sea turtle too feeble with age to escape.

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What we hope to do is to set ourselves apart from our competition and be a sea turtle instead of a sardine.

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In the case of sea turtles, conservationists commonly relocate complete clutches of sea turtle eggs from high-risk nesting beaches where eggs are vulnerable to human poaching, depredation by animals, and loss by tidal inundation (e.g., Mortimer et al.

Predaceous fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) at sea turtle (Testudines: Cheloniidae) nesting beaches and hatcheries in El Salvador

ORLANDO, Dhu-AlQa'dah 24, 1436, September 08, 2015, SPA -- Each year, conservationists are counting more and more green sea turtle nests on the beaches of Florida.

Green sea turtles set nesting record in Florida

Analyzing Coordination And Conservation Efforts in Sea Turtle Law

Please turn your lights off, the turtles are nesting: ensuring that federal, state, and local laws help guide endangered marine turtle hatchlings in Florida to the right source of light

An endangered sea turtle, locally known as pawikan, was found dead in Jagna town, Bohol on Thursday morning.

Endangered hawksbill turtle found dead in Bohol town

ENPNewswire-August 8, 2019--FOUR SEASONS RESORT NEVIS AND SEA TURTLE CONSERVANCY CONTINUE SEA TURTLE RESEARCH IN NEVIS; Celebrating 13 years of sea turtle conservation with the help of the Nevisian community

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Neophytou, who is himself from Argaka, was speaking after an incident on Thursday when Argaka mayor Spyros Pelopidas stormed down to the protected beach beneath the Santa Barbara restaurant and picked a fight with local and international sea turtle protection experts taking part in an internationally-renowned sea turtle protection educational programme.

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Reports reaching Manila said the three fishermen from the Badjao seagoing tribe were arrested by the regional maritime police and the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Cebu last Saturday after the authorities found in their possession a dead green sea turtle.

Philippines: 3 held for killing endangered sea turtle

The number of sea turtle nests observed on local beaches plummeted last year due to red tide and other harmful algal blooms.

SEA TURTLES: Nesting season returns to Florida's Gulf Coast

A non-governmental organisation in Lamu has launched massive campaigns focusing entirely on protecting critically endangered sea turtles in the region.The Lamu Marine Conservation Trust (LaMCoT), a local NGO, has now embarked on developing a holistic ecosystem based approach aimed at conserving and managing the sea turtle population across the Lamu archipelago for the benefit of the current and future generation.

Lamu NGO starts campaign to save endangered sea turtles