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Meanings of hawksbill turtle in английском

португальский
tartaruga-de-pente
каталонский
carei

Pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell.

tartaruga-de-pente
Synonyms
Examples for "hawksbill"
Examples for "hawksbill"
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Other turtles which nest there are the hawksbill and the Oliver Ridley.
Reuters
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Yeh scooped out a large hawksbill turtle named Genie and held her up.
BBC
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It might be a lace handkerchief, a pink Paumotan pearl, or a comb of hawksbill turtle.
The Turtles of Tasman
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National conservation measures are not enough to protect critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle populations in the Pacific.
Radio NZ
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Our fishing party have taken in their seine to-day, two flying-fish of the gurnet species, and a hawksbill turtle.
A Voyage Round the World, Volume I / Including Travels in Africa...
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The hawkbill slashed down, cutting open Pemberton's front pant pocket and freeing the twenty-dollar gold piece.
Serena
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A hawkbill knife was found near him.
Marse Henry (Volume 1) / An Autobiography
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He took the hawkbill knife from his pocket and freed the blade with the same slow deliberateness he might undo a bow.
Serena
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And we traded and salved wherever a dollar promised in the way of pearl and pearl shell, copra, beche-de-mer, hawkbill turtle shell, and stranded wrecks.
South Sea Tales
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It was Chainday the twentieth, or the seventh Skydi of Hawkbill-Bellis no longer cared which.
The Scar
Usage of hawksbill turtle in английском
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Yeh scooped out a large hawksbill turtle named Genie and held her up.
BBC
2
It might be a lace handkerchief, a pink Paumotan pearl, or a comb of hawksbill turtle.
The Turtles of Tasman
3
Our fishing party have taken in their seine to-day, two flying-fish of the gurnet species, and a hawksbill turtle.
A Voyage Round the World, Volume I / Including Travels in Africa...
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Species such as the hawksbill turtle are dependent on coral reefs which are bleaching and dying with climate change.
The Guardian
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The Hawksbill Turtle is distinguished by the hawk-like appearance of its head.
Pathfinder; or, The Missing Tenderfoot
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The Conservancy began attaching satellite tags to 10 hawksbill turtles in mid-April, the start of the peak nesting season.
Reuters
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Baby hawksbill turtles at a hatchery in the Malaysian state of Malacca, February 8, 2007.
Reuters
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There are only about 15,000 female hawksbill turtles worldwide, according to a 2005 estimate by the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service.
Reuters
Translations for hawksbill turtle
каталонский
carei