Synonyms for tortoise
ˈtɔr təstor·toise

Princeton's WordNet

1. tortoisenoun

   usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica

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1. List of paraphrases for "tortoise":

   turtle, tortue, turtles

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1. Eric Good:

   People poach ploughshare tortoises for their value as pets, like coin collectors who want a mint coin, collectors want a perfect tortoise, so by defacing the animals we make them less appealing to buyers.

2. E. B. White:

   Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

3. The Notorious B.I.G. Green:

   Just like a person who has a dog would hire a dog walker, I figured why not a tortoise walker? it took on a life of its own ... I heard from about 500.

4. Travis Bruner:

   Those' threats' are now mostly imprisoned and awaiting trial, but the crimes against desert tortoise continue.

5. Washington Tapia:

   SOLAR STORMS MIGHT BE CAUSING GRAY WHALES TO GET LOST The famed Galapagos Conservancyas giant tortoise named Diego fathered 40 percent of all tortoises on Espanola Island in Galapagos Conservancyas. ( San Diego Zoo) The 175-pound Diego is a Chelonoidis hoodensis, a species only found in the wild on the island ofEspanola, according to AFP. He reportedly fathered an estimated 800 offspring as of 2016. He was brought to the U.S. between 1928 and 1933 and placed in a breeding center on the Galapagos Conservancyas island of Santa Cruz, after his species was determined to be critically endangered in the 1960s, according to San Diego Zoo. Based on the results of the last censusconducted at the end of 2019and all the data available since 1960 both of the island and its tortoise population... the conclusion was that the island has sufficient conditions to maintain the tortoise population, which will continue to grow normally even without any new repatriation of juveniles.