elephantine tortoise

English

Noun

elephantine tortoise (plural elephantine tortoises)

  1. A huge land tortoise, especially Testudo elephantina, from islands in the Indian Ocean, or Testudo elephantopus, from the Galapagos Islands.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for elephantine tortoise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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