chicken terrapin

chicken terrapin
noun or chicken tortoise or chicken turtle
1. : a small or medium-sized edible aquatic turtle (Deirochelys reticularia) of the southern Atlantic states having a long snakelike neck and an elongated carapace marked with a network of yellow lines
2. : the young of the green turtle

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