We found 1 definitions of marine turtle from 1 different sources.
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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 |