Caretta

Caretta
noun
loggerhead turtles
• Syn: ↑genus Caretta
• Hypernyms: ↑reptile genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cheloniidae, ↑family Cheloniidae, ↑Chelonidae, ↑family Chelonidae
• Member Meronyms: ↑loggerhead, ↑loggerhead turtle, ↑Caretta caretta

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\\kəˈred.ə\ noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from French caret hawksbill turtle, from Spanish carey, from Taino
: a genus of marine turtles (family Chelonidae) comprising all the loggerhead turtles or in some classifications solely the common loggerhead (C. caretta)

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