Definition of sea turtle Sea turtle

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What does sea turtle mean?

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

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sea turtle
Any one of several very large species of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. They inhabit all warm seas.
sea turtle
The sea pigeon, or guillemot.

Sea turtles ("Chelonioidea") are turtles found in all the world's oceans except the Arctic Ocean, and some species travel between oceans.

There are seven types of sea turtles: Kemp's Ridley, Flatback, Green, Olive Ridley, Loggerhead, Hawksbill and the leatherback. All but the leatherback are in the family Chelonioidea; the leatherback belongs to the family Dermochelyidae and is its only member, the leatherback sea turtle, is the largest, measuring six or seven feet (2 m) in length at maturity, and three to five feet (1 to 1.5 m) in width, weighing up to 1300 pounds (600 kg). Most other species are smaller, being two to four feet in length (0.5 to 1 m) and proportionally less wide. The Flatback turtle is found solely on the northern coast of Australia.

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