terrapin in English

noun
1
a small edible turtle with lozenge-shaped markings on its shell, found in coastal marshes of the eastern US.
The northern diamondback terrapin , red fox, snapping turtle, raccoon, rabbit, skunk, opossum and blue crab, all animals that do well living close to people, have adapted nicely to the rapid changes of the Meadowlands.
2
a freshwater turtle, especially one of the smaller kinds of the Old World.
‘There will be a demonstration on reptiles like snakes, terrapins , skinks and tortoises, that will look at how they adapt to the environment,’ says zoo educationist Imelda Matlala.

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1. # Almost anything X-Box, wedding ring, fish tank, terrapin

2. Synonyms for Chelonian include turtle, tortoise, cooter, leatherback, loggerhead, slowpoke, snapper, terrapin and testudinal

3. Alliciency Allicient Allied Alligate: Alligation Alligator Alligator apple Alligator fish Alligator gar Alligator pear Alligator snapper Alligator terrapin Alligator turtle Alligator wood Alligator wrench alligatored alligatorfish Alligatoridae Allignment Allineate Allineation Allionia allis …

4. Cooter (n.) name for some types of freshwater terrapin in southern U.S., especially the common box-turtle, 1835 (first attested 1827 in phrase drunk as a Cooter, but this perhaps is a colloquial form of unrelated coot), of uncertain origin, perhaps from obsolete verb coot "to copulate" (1660s), which is of unknown origin