box turtle
See also: box-turtle
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box turtle (plural box turtles)
- A turtle of the genera Terrapene (the North American box turtles), Cuora, or Pyxidea (the Asian box turtles), characterised by having a domed shell that is hinged at the bottom, allowing the animal to close its shell tightly to escape predators.
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terms derived from box turtle
- amboina box turtle
- Asian box turtle
- Chinese box turtle
- Coahuilan box turtle
- common box turtle
- desert box turtle
- Eastern box turtle
- Florida box turtle
- Gulf Coast box turtle
- Indo-Chinese box turtle, Indochinese box turtle
- keeled box turtle
- McCord's box turtle
- Mexican box turtle
- ornate box turtle
- Pan's box turtle
- spotted box turtle
- three-banded box turtle
- three-lined box turtle
- three-striped box turtle
- three-toed box turtle
- Western box turtle
- yellow-headed box turtle
- Yucatan box turtle
- Yunnan box turtle
- Zhou's box turtle