turtle

«turtle» in Mova's school dictionary: a reptile with a hard shell on its back that covers its… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a turtle, turtles)

meaning for a pupil

1) A turtle is a reptile with a hard shell on its back that covers its body; many turtles live in the sea or in rivers and ponds. tree →

2) In American English, turtle is often used for any animal with this kind of shell, including tortoises. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, turtles are reptiles: they are cold-blooded, breathe air and lay eggs on land; sea turtles swim thousands of kilometres. In environment lessons, plastic bags hurt sea turtles because they look like jellyfish. Phrases: sea turtle, turtle shell, turn turtle (turn upside down).

examples

• The sea turtle laid her eggs in the sand. tree →
• Turtles pull their heads into their shells. tree →
• Baby turtles crawl to the sea at night. tree →
• A turtle must come up to breathe air. tree →
• Plastic in the ocean harms turtles. tree →
• Our class pet is a turtle called Speedy. tree →
• The boat turned turtle in the storm. tree →
• Turtles have no teeth but a sharp beak. tree →
• The movement, gentle though it was, woke the turtle. tree →

note

Countable. In the UK and Australia, turtle usually means one that lives in water, and tortoise one that lives on land; Americans may call both turtles. A turtle cannot climb out of its shell: the shell is part of its skeleton.

In the corpora

• Many female sea turtles come back to lay eggs on the beach where they hatched; scientists think they remember its magnetic signature.
• The alligator snapping turtle lures fish with a pink worm-shaped flap on its tongue and then snaps its jaws shut.
• Sea turtles have lived in the oceans since the time of the dinosaurs.
• Sea turtles cannot pull their heads or flippers into their shells, because their streamlined swimming shells have no room inside.
• Sea turtles eat jellyfish, and floating plastic bags look like jellyfish, so turtles sometimes swallow plastic, which can block their stomachs.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «turtle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.