marine turtle

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marine turtle - any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas

sea turtle

turtle - any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming

Chelonia mydas, green turtle - large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup

Caretta caretta, loggerhead turtle, loggerhead - very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas

ridley - a marine turtle

Eretmochelys imbricata, hawkbill, hawksbill, hawksbill turtle, tortoiseshell turtle - pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell

Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle - wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle

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