What is the meaning of Tortoise?

  • (n.) having a color like that of a tortoise's shell, black with white and orange spots; -- used mostly to describe cats of that color.
  • (n.) Same as Testudo, 2.
  • (n.) a tortoise-shell cat.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order Testudinata.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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