CHICKEN TERRAPIN


Meaning of CHICKEN TERRAPIN in English

noun

or chicken tortoise or chicken turtle

1. : a small or medium-sized edible aquatic turtle ( Deirochelys reticularia ) of the southern Atlantic states having a long snakelike neck and an elongated carapace marked with a network of yellow lines

2. : the young of the green turtle

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