terrapin
Example Sentences
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It turned out to be a diamondback terrapin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
Tulare Lake expanded each spring as rain and melting snow filled the valley, growing so large that fisherfolk could sail across its surface to catch terrapin for San Francisco restaurants.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2023
BARNSTABLE, Mass. — A rare two-headed diamondback terrapin turtle is alive and kicking - with all six of its legs - at the Birdsey Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts after hatching two weeks ago.
From Washington Times • Oct. 12, 2021
“I really enjoyed, both in the writing and in the gustatory consumption, the terrapin soup,” he says.
From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2018
He barked at me till he got distracted by a big terrapin crawling on the creek bank.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
