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tortoise
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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2009
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tor·toise
/ ˈtôrtəs/
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n.
1.
a turtle, typically a herbivorous one that lives on land.
∎ inf.
anything exceptionally slow-moving:
you are a tortoise on the uptake today.
2.
another term for testudo.
DERIVATIVES:
tor·toise·like
/ -ˌlīk/ adj. & adv.
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 "Northwest Florida Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, FL)")
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Tortoises to get new digs: The move is going slowly for crews trying to relocate 50 gopher tortoises from a DeFuniak Springs site.
Newspaper article from: Northwest Florida Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, FL); 5/25/2006; 700+ words
; ...16,000 to move the tortoises to their new home...as an official gopher tortoise relocation site for...participates in gopher tortoise relocations statewide. He's seen 12,000 tortoises relocated over the years...Once at Nokuse, the tortoise colony will become part...
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Tortoises Are Losers in Race for Florida Development
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/15/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...known case of tortoise dumping. It...population of gopher tortoises, a species that...her to move 76 tortoises, including 51...board $1,000 a tortoise. In addition...Everglades. There, tortoises are protected from tortoise-eating Seminoles...
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 "Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)")
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Tortoises get new digs: Four taken near Maitland Boulevard go free in the Panhandle.
Newspaper article from: Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL); 5/24/2007; 700+ words
; ...backyard swimming pool. No tortoise was found. At the end of the day, only four tortoises had been uncovered...Aresco released the tortoises into a 100-acre tract...netting. Like other tortoise defenders, he said...disappointed that so many tortoises were lost at the highway...
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 "Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK)")
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Tortoises ease through life.
Newspaper article from: Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK); 7/29/2007; 700+ words
; ...taking hundreds of tortoises onboard -- because...beginning of the giant tortoise repatriation program...Isabela islands. Tortoise eggs are collected...contained 2-year-old tortoises about the size of...large terrapins. Tortoises grow so slowly and...restoring the tortoise dynasty," ...
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Tortoise Capital Advisors, LLC Completes Sale of Controlling Interest to Mariner Holdings and Tortoise Managers.
Newspaper article from: Energy Weekly News; 10/2/2009; 700+ words
; Tortoise Capital Advisors, LLC (Tortoise) announced that the sale of all of its ownership interests...Directors and Mariner Holdings, LLC (Mariner) has closed. Tortoise serves as the adviser of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp...
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 "South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)")
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Tortoise likely to get a break.
Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL); 5/22/2006; 700+ words
; ...alternative to killing tortoises is moving them off development...But a complete halt in tortoise killings probably won...because in some cases, tortoises might show advanced...more to stop permitted tortoise killings, few involved...alternative of moving tortoises to a private or public...
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Tortoise likely to get a break: Moves to conserve the species are gaining support, even among developers.
Newspaper article from: Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL); 5/22/2006; 700+ words
; ...alternative to killing tortoises is moving them off development...But a complete halt in tortoise killings probably won...because in some cases, tortoises might show advanced...more to stop permitted tortoise killings, few involved...alternative of moving tortoises to a private or public...
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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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'Tortoise dreams,' a South African tale
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 1/11/2001; 700+ words
; ...off they flew. While the tortoise waited, he dreamed again...stick in his beak. "Here, Tortoise," the doves said. "We...new watering hole. Even tortoises can fly." Now the tortoise was overjoyed. He trundled...
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Tortoises on the March: modeling and GIS help relocate a threatened species.(Wildlife Management)(Cover story)
Magazine article from: GEO World; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the threatened desert tortoise. Biologists at the...are several hundred tortoises in the expansion area...altered. Plants that the tortoises rely on for food or...also would affect the tortoise's ability to construct...they live. Moving the tortoises, however, is no easy...
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Tortoises, manatees have plenty at stake in hearing about their legal status.
Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL); 6/5/2006; 700+ words
; ...to crush or bury tortoises alive, provided...and protect gopher tortoise habitat elsewhere...recommended upgrading the tortoise's legal status...the live burial of tortoises, which have slow...commission can do to stop tortoise killing, while...happy that gopher tortoises are getting ...
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tortoise
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
tortoise , common name...Testudinidae. Tortoises inhabit warm...the Galapagos tortoise, most of them...islands. These tortoises were a major...desert and gopher tortoises reach a length...while the Texas tortoise is about 8 1...
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Tortoise
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
Tortoise Instrumental Post-rock group For the...Ask anyone to describe the music of Tortoise, and you will probably receive a variety...from Chicago, Illinois. Nonetheless, Tortoise owe a large debt to traditional rock...
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Tortoise oracle
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Tortoise oracle. Ancient Chinese method of divination...bones . Unlike the latter, however, the tortoise oracle was not forgotten to later Chinese...literature, and philosophy. The cosmic tortoise is known from ancient myths as the foundation...
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tortoises
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
tortoises See CHELONIA ; EMYDIDAE ; TESTUDINIDAE .
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tortoise beetle
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
tortoise beetle See CHRYSOMELIDAE .
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