Tortoise
noun
1.
a turtle, especially a terrestrial turtle.
2.
a very slow person or thing.
3.
testudo (def 1).
noun
1.
any herbivorous terrestrial chelonian reptile of the family Testudinidae, of most warm regions, having a heavy dome-shaped shell and clawed limbs related adjectives chelonian testudinal
2.
water tortoise, another name for terrapin
3.
a slow-moving person
4.
another word for testudo See also giant tortoise
(Heb. tsabh). Ranked among the unclean animals (Lev. 11:29). Land tortoises are common in Syria. The LXX. renders the word by “land crocodile.” The word, however, more probably denotes a lizard, called by the modern Arabs _dhabb_.
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