TORTUGA

Meaning of TORTUGA in English

/tawr tooh"geuh/ , n.

an island off the N coast of and belonging to Haiti: formerly a pirate stronghold. 23 mi. (37 km) long; 70 sq. mi. (180 sq. km). French, La Tortue .

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TORTUGA — geographical name island Haiti off N coast; a stronghold of pirates in 17th century population 13,723
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
TORTUGA — geographical name island Haiti off N coast; a stronghold of pirates in 17th century population 13,723
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TORTUGA — Tortuga BrE AmE tɔː ˈtuːɡ ə AmE \ tɔːr-
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
TORTUGA — Тортуга
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TORTUGA — Pronunciation: to ̇ r- ' tü-g ə Function: geographical name island Haiti off N coast; a stronghold of pirates in …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
TORTUGA ISLAND — French le De La Tortue, Caribbean island off the northern coast of Haiti opposite Port-de-Paix. European adventurers settled Tortuga (Spanish: …
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LA TORTUGA ISLAND — Тортуга
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MATTHIESSEN, PETER — born May 22, 1927, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. naturalist and writer. He attended Yale University and worked as a …
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LA TORTUE — /lann tawrdd tyuu"/ . French name of Tortuga .
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TORTOISE — [ 'tɔ:təs , -tɔɪz ] ■ noun 1》 a slow-moving land reptile of warm climates, enclosed in a scaly or …
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BUCCANEER — English, French, or Dutch sea adventurer, who haunted chiefly the Caribbean and the Pacific seaboard of South America, preying on …
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VENEZUELA, HISTORY OF — history of the area from pre-Columbian times to the present. The oldest inhabitants of Venezuela were primitive food-gathering Indians who …
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VENEZUELA — officially Republic of Venezuela, Spanish Repblica de Venezuela, country located at the northern extremity of the South American continent. It …
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PORT-DE-PAIX — port, northwestern Haiti. It lies on the Atlantic coast opposite Tortuga Island. It was founded in 1665 by French filibusters, …
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MATTHIESSEN, PETER — born May 22, 1927, New York, N.Y., U.S. American novelist, naturalist, and wilderness writer whose work deals with the destructive …
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HISPANIOLA — formerly Espaola, second largest island of the West Indies, within the Greater Antilles. It is divided politically into the Republic …
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HAITI, HISTORY OF — history of the island from the time of the landing of Christopher Columbus, in 1492, to the present. Christopher Columbus …
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ANAYA, RUDOLFO A. — born Oct. 30, 1937, Pastura, New Mexico, U.S. in full Rudolfo Alfonso Anaya American novelist and educator whose fiction expresses …
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TORTOISE — / ˈtɔːtəs; NAmE ˈtɔːrtəs/ noun a reptile with a hard round shell, that lives on land and moves very slowly. …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MATTHIESSEN, PETER — born May 22, 1927, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. naturalist and writer. He attended Yale University and worked as a …
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ТОРТУГА — Tortuga
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КАЙМАН — о-ва на С.-З. Карибского моря, Вест-Индия. Открыты Колумбом в 1503 г. и названы Тортугас - 'черепаховые' (исп. tortuga - 'черепаха'). …
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