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• European tortoise (noun)
  1. small land tortoise of southern Europe
• Hare and the Tortoise, The
  1. another name for The TORTOISE AND THE HARE
• Texas tortoise (noun)
  1. close relative to the desert tortoise; may be reclassified as a member of genus Xerobates
• Tortoise and the Hare, the
  1. a FABLE (= a traditional story that teaches a moral lesson) by AESOP in which a TORTOISE and a HARE have a race. The TORTOISE unexpectedly wins by moving slowly but steadily, while the HARE, because he knows he can run much faster than the TORTOISE, stops halfway and falls asleep. The lesson of the story is "Slow and steady wins the race."
• box tortoise (noun)
  1. chiefly terrestrial turtle of North America; shell can be closed tightly
• desert tortoise (noun)
  1. burrowing tortoise of the arid western United States and northern Mexico; may be reclassified as a member of genus Xerobates
• giant tortoise (noun)
  1. very large tortoises of the Galapagos and Seychelles islands
• gopher tortoise (noun)
  1. burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
• painted tortoise (noun)
  1. freshwater turtles having bright yellow and red markings; common in the eastern United States
• tortoise plant (noun)
  1. south African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark
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