noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
giant
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Several other cruisers squatted dourly like giant hibernating tortoises .
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Although humans may have the longest lifespan of any mammal, giant tortoises have the longest recorded lives among vertebrates.
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Transported to this bleak planet only to be confronted by a marauding gang of giant tortoises .
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Much easier to photograph were the giant tortoises which were lumbering around like tanks in the undergrowth.
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The giant tortoises that feed on them are damaged in their turn.
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Land birds and reptiles, like giant tortoises and land iguanas, are having a field day.
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Whalers began the damage by killing at least 100,000 giant tortoises for meat and oil.
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V Moly A giant tortoise struggles in and out of his awkward clothes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I mean, wouldn't a nice tortoise be a more worthy beneficiary than the reptilian Jamie?
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Noticing the eagle and the tortoise now, he stopped dead.
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Only by smashing the tortoise , could the bird get at its succulent flesh.
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Several other cruisers squatted dourly like giant hibernating tortoises.
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The desert tortoise is one of many species in the protected area.
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This week one old dear ignored her relatives and left £25,000 to her tortoise .
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To my left hand was a small ledge and on it, rather surprisingly, a tortoise appeared.