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What is a tortoise?

What is a tortoise? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of family Testudinidae, whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.
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The testudo, the tortoise formation, involved raising the scutums into a shell.
Currently, the group is in the midst of training dogs to find desert tortoise scat and hope to conduct testing this spring in Nevada.
A randy tortoise is on the run after scaling a two-foot wall in search of a new partner after his mate of 38 years died.
A two-headed tortoise has come out of its shell in Dorset to find itself in the media spotlight.
Here the King of the Jungle was a giant vegetarian tortoise, and there were no large predators of any kind.
Roman soldiers used to form a testudo or tortoise, by some putting their shields over their heads and others in front.

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