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loggerhead turtle

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loggerhead turtle
n.
A very large marine turtle (Caretta caretta) inhabiting warm ocean waters and having a large beaked head.
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Noun1.loggerhead turtleloggerhead turtle - very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas
Caretta caretta, 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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The immunoenhancement noted in these previous laboratory and environmental studies support the conclusions that OCs may enhance certain responses of loggerhead turtle immune cells and that lymphocyte proliferation may indeed be a useful biomarker of exposure to OCs.
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