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Mud turtle

noun

Bottom-dwelling freshwater turtle inhabiting muddy rivers of North America and Central America.

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"Mud turtle" Quotes from Famous Books

... hole—now be careful, take tight hold of the arms of the chair, and hold your breaths, so as not to be disappointed, what should come out of the hole but a big, brownish-black, spotted with red and yellow, wrinkle-legged, hard-shelled, sharp-beaked mud turtle! There, now! ...

— Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble • Howard R. Garis

Words linked to "Mud turtle" : turtle, Kinosternon, genus Kinosternon, musk turtle, stinkpot