Usage of "tortoise" | TermGallery

русский

черепаха

португальский

testudínideo

испанский

testudínidas

каталонский

testudínids

Family of turtles.

testudinidae

Похожие термины

taxon

черепаха

Использование термина tortoise на английском

All I seem to know about your personal circumstances is your tortoise. 
 The tower, the zoo and the tortoise 

The elephant stands on the tortoise, and the tortoise on the elephant. 
 Orthodoxy 

The tortoise was going to reach the same goal with the hare. 
 Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins. / Final Memoir... 

The tortoise now went in front, and speaking to the gatekeeper, said: 
 Japanese Fairy Tales 

The events portended are set forth by the divining-grass and the tortoise. 
 Religions of Ancient China 

She moves there&buys a Russian tortoise named Olenka to keep her company. 
 The new yorker 

Some of the men of Ceylon wear tortoise-shell combs in their hair. 
 Highroads of Geography / Introductory Book: Round the World with... 

The tortoise and the butterfly are alike incapable of preventing their destruction. 
 The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical Wor... 

But one thought it was the tortoise who won the famous race. 
 Alias the Lone Wolf 

The tortoise continued to soothe the water fowl until it was calmed. 
 The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights. Vol. 1 

He therefore decided to glaze the shell of the tortoise with gold. 
 Against the Grain 

The tortoise suffered a small chip to its shell and quickly retreated. 
 BBC 

Get me the new tortoise-shell spectacles and a large slice of bread. 
 The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 18 

And they began to treat the poor tortoise more cruelly than ever. 
 Japanese Fairy Tales 

A tortoise hangs in his needy shop, nor are stuffed alligators lacking. 
 The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales 

Corals and large tortoise-shells show also that the land approaches the tropics. 
 Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ... 