GREEN TURTLE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup

Synonyms:

Chelonia mydas; green turtle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("green turtle" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("green turtle" is a member of...):

Chelonia; genus Chelonia (green turtles)