Usually means: Reptile with shell, slow-moving.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. tortoise: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tortoise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tortoise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tortoise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tortoise: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tortoise, tortoise: Wordnik
  7. tortoise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tortoise: Wiktionary
  9. tortoise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tortoise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tortoise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Tortoise, tortoise: Dictionary.com
  13. tortoise: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tortoise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tortoise (album), Tortoise (band), Tortoise (disambiguation), Tortoise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tortoise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tortoise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tortoise: Rhymezone
  19. Tortoise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tortoise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tortoise: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. tortoise: Free Dictionary
  23. tortoise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tortoise: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. tortoise: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. tortoise: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tortoise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tortoise: Medical dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tortoise: Easton Bible
  2. Tortoise: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tortoise: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. The Tortoise, tortoise: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

(Note: See tortoises as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly Canada, US) or the order Testudines (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India), whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.
noun:  Synonym of cat (sense 10, a wheeled shelter)

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