testudinoid

English

Etymology

Clipping of translingual Testudinoidea. By surface analysis, Latin testūdō +‎ -in- +‎ -oid.

Noun

testudinoid (plural testudinoids)

1. Any turtle of the superfamily Testudinoidea.
   • 2015, Nikolay Natchev et al., “Feeding behaviour in a ‘basal’ tortoise provides insights on the transitional feeding mode at the dawn of modern land turtle evolution”, in PeerJ‎^[1], volume 3, →DOI:

     The terrestrial mode of food uptake differs dramatically among and within the three testudinoid subgroups (see Bels, Davenport & Delheusy, 1997 ; Bels et al., 2008 ; Summers et al., 1998 ; Wochesländer, Hilgers & Weisgram, 1999 ; Natchev et al., 2009, present study).

Hypernyms

• cryptodiran

Hyponyms

• emydid, terrapin, pond turtle, marsh turtle
• geoemydid
• haichemydid
• lindholmemydid
• platysternid, big-headed turtle
• sinochelyid
• tortoise, testudinid