■ noun a small tropical sea turtle with hooked jaws and overlapping horny plates on the shell, hunted as the traditional source of tortoiseshell. [ Eretmochelys imbricata .]
HAWKSBILL TURTLE
Meaning of HAWKSBILL TURTLE in English
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004