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Meanings of turtle back in English

Russian
dioscorea elephantipes
Portuguese
dioscorea elephantipes
Spanish
dioscorea elephantipes
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Species of plant.

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        dioscorea elephantipes
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        Examples for "dioscorea elephantipes"
        1
        The first step is the elephant's foot, the second is the loop of his tail.
        Highroads of Geography / Introductory Book: Round the World with...
        2
        Feeling a heavy elephant's foot on his striped tail, the Tiger jumped eight hundred yards ahead.
        Abducted to Oz
        3
        What is comparatively level to an elephant's foot is as a ploughed field to that of a man.
        The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon
        4
        By Elizabeth Pennisi, ScienceNOW Buried beneath the leathery skin of an elephant's foot lies one of anatomy's unappreciated mysteries.
        Wired
        5
        The watchman walked back toward the elevator, and saw the skate that had come off the Elephant's foot.
        The Story of a White Rocking Horse
        1
        He locked down his turtle shell and shucked off his harness webbing.
        Genellan: planetfall
        2
        Each one was basically a turtle shell, a house carried on the back.
        Flesh Eaters
        3
        A gold-chased corselet, perhaps, to replace that battered old turtle shell of yours?
        Hidden Warrior
        4
        His assistants fanned his stick, which flamed against the turtle shell.
        The Dragon King’s Palace
        5
        His green turtle shell body wiggling helplessly in my hair-grasp.
        Fantastic Orgy
        Usage of turtle back in English
        1
        No turtle ever rang another turtle back on the phone.
        The new yorker
        2
        So we withdraw and our faces become alike as turtle backs.
        A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
        3
        Look on that chip pile; you will see many turtle backs that I have thrown away.
        The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone
        4
        Middletown was now specializing in radio astronomy at the government's new solar observatory on Turtle Back Mountain in Arizona.
        Disturbing Sun
        5
        At fifteen miles from the Turtle Back we found some clay-pans with water, where we turned out our horses for an hour.
        Australia Twice Traversed / The Romance of Exploration, Being a ...
        6
        The individual pictured above is in much better condition, however, and is part of a pair on display at the Turtle Back Zoo.
        Wired
        7
        Turtle caretakers marked a success on Wednesday, when they released 23 recovered Kemp's Ridley turtles back into the ocean near Cedar Key, Florida.
        Reuters
        8
        I was much pleased with Gibson's discovery, and we moved the camp down to this spot, which we always after called the Turtle Back.
        Australia Twice Traversed / The Romance of Exploration, Being a ...
        9
        "I must not let a hump come in the middle," he said; "for then I should have a turtle back.
        The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone
        10
        The rehabilitation project was launched in 2004 and since then has helped return nearly 1,600 sick or injured turtles back to the ocean.
        BBC
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